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Let's begin with questions and a bit of ground work.
We need to establish some starting point so let's first try to get an idea what kind of experience we as online music collaborators have.
For anyone who might not be aware of what online collaboration means, we're talking about using your recording software to write a song or part of a song and then sharing
it with someone in another place by sending it to them through the internet. They will in turn play a part for your song and send that part back to you. Obviously the internet can allow for almost instantaneous exchange of files world wide.
I'm sure those of us who have done this kind of thing before will have different techniques to share.
Many of us work on different platforms and use different recording software but we are now in a time where almost all of the problems that prevented cross platform collaboration in the past have been overcome. Most any modern DAWs can write or save or export files in several different formats i.e. MP3, WAV, AIFF etc. so sending someone the right file, though important, is less of an issue than in the past.
I have found in doing OC (online Collaboration) that tempo is one of the most important factors. In order for your file and your collaborators to be sync-able,
both parties must have the same tempo setting in their respective sequencers.
Another factor that aids in a more workable outcome is always starting your
part from the very first beat of the piece of music or a bar before, if there happens to be any pick up note/s.
Even if your part doesn't come in until bar 74, 73 bars of silence preceding your part will help to insure your collaborator can drop your part into his or her song and
your part will begin right where it's supposed to.
This only applies to your final output and doesn't mean you have to start record and wait 73 bars to record your part.
More experienced users might find this a bit excessive but for beginners it may be better to stick with this method.
In other words, when you send your final part back to the other person you will need to send them the part you played, soloed, (by itself) starting from the very beginning or at the very point the original part you were sent started. That way your collaborator can drop your part into their DAW and mix it as if it were a part recorded in their own studio on it's own track.
This may not always be necessary. Later on when you become more adept at creating and sending parts you may only want to record an 8 bar part at, say, bar 64 and bounce only that eight bar part but you would have to specify to your collaborator that they must drop your part in at that specific bar(64).
This is of course a discussion group so any other ideas or techniques are welcome.
The hope here is that we can all become more adept at the recording process and work with many new and interesting players around the world.
Anyone who is interested in starting or continuing to do OC may also want to read my post here.
http://atlantapromusicians.ning.com/forum/categories/2054829:Catego...
It tells about a software I have found to be very useful for OC.
The title of the post is: If you want to or do collaborate with other players online, this is great AND FREE!
See ya around.
Get OCing!
For anyone who might not be aware of what online collaboration means, we're talking about using your recording software to write a song or part of a song and then sharing
it with someone in another place by sending it to them through the internet. They will in turn play a part for your song and send that part back to you. Obviously the internet can allow for almost instantaneous exchange of files world wide.
I'm sure those of us who have done this kind of thing before will have different techniques to share.
Many of us work on different platforms and use different recording software but we are now in a time where almost all of the problems that prevented cross platform collaboration in the past have been overcome. Most any modern DAWs can write or save or export files in several different formats i.e. MP3, WAV, AIFF etc. so sending someone the right file, though important, is less of an issue than in the past.
I have found in doing OC (online Collaboration) that tempo is one of the most important factors. In order for your file and your collaborators to be sync-able,
both parties must have the same tempo setting in their respective sequencers.
Another factor that aids in a more workable outcome is always starting your
part from the very first beat of the piece of music or a bar before, if there happens to be any pick up note/s.
Even if your part doesn't come in until bar 74, 73 bars of silence preceding your part will help to insure your collaborator can drop your part into his or her song and
your part will begin right where it's supposed to.
This only applies to your final output and doesn't mean you have to start record and wait 73 bars to record your part.
More experienced users might find this a bit excessive but for beginners it may be better to stick with this method.
In other words, when you send your final part back to the other person you will need to send them the part you played, soloed, (by itself) starting from the very beginning or at the very point the original part you were sent started. That way your collaborator can drop your part into their DAW and mix it as if it were a part recorded in their own studio on it's own track.
This may not always be necessary. Later on when you become more adept at creating and sending parts you may only want to record an 8 bar part at, say, bar 64 and bounce only that eight bar part but you would have to specify to your collaborator that they must drop your part in at that specific bar(64).
This is of course a discussion group so any other ideas or techniques are welcome.
The hope here is that we can all become more adept at the recording process and work with many new and interesting players around the world.
Anyone who is interested in starting or continuing to do OC may also want to read my post here.
http://atlantapromusicians.ning.com/forum/categories/2054829:Catego...
It tells about a software I have found to be very useful for OC.
The title of the post is: If you want to or do collaborate with other players online, this is great AND FREE!
See ya around.
Get OCing!
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Melissa Gordon Rhine on -
I'm really, really happy to see this. Thanks for the invite- the timing is perfect and I'll be drinking this up!
I'm a relatively new owner of pro tools and garageband. The prospect of creating music world wide, instantaneously, is truly exciting to me. In the last year I've begun doing OC and have a lot to learn!
As a lifelong performer and writer, I'm happy to jump in on collaborative projects as much as my schedule allows.
Thanks Michael,
Melissa
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