Open Source ILF Collab Vol. 2 (JAMS IS LIVE, PAGE 14!)

[Olin]

Maybe we should have some fuzzy guidelines for the samples this year.
Like, a duration limit maybe and ideally not things that are already super layered/full tracks, as it gives less freedom for people to combine/mash them together.

But then, I'm thinking about guidelines more than hard rules.

Was also thinking this. Can't decide whether having a key would be a good idea or a restrictive idea.

[actual]

Was thinking the same, but with some savvy you can always figure out the pitch and transpose accordingly.

[Olin]

Yeah that's my counter-thought, that if someone does something in a different scale you can fux with it to warp it into your key or whatever, and that's probably part of the experience. Dunno.

[codetocontra]

This is a cool project. Trying to figure out how I would approach assembling a song from samples.
Edit: experimenting with signal flow ideas tonight.

[DRodriguez]

I would highly recommend against over organizing the samples. The beauty of the project is how everyone approaches the process and its challenges differently. When you set everything to a key, you're already adding in a focus. Also samples can be atonal, or between keys, etc.

Basic guidelines like not massively long (my bad last time) are fine.

[oscillateur]

Yeah, I was just thinking in terms of avoiding samples that are basically whole tracks already, and having them not too long.
Anything more than that is too much constraints I think.

[ibarakishi]

I would highly recommend against over organizing the samples. The beauty of the project is how everyone approaches the process and its challenges differently. When you set everything to a key, you're already adding in a focus. Also samples can be atonal, or between keys, etc.

Basic guidelines like not massively long (my bad last time) are fine.

This ^

I don't think time is a huge problem though, mainly just because from what i understood, we are just cutting up and arranging whatever we want right from the final folder of stems correct? So basically, whatever samples you put out for the project would then most likely be the framework or starting point from where you were wanting to take your own track anyways (or at least wanted to bank on having samples for that were in your control). In the end, just making sure that your own tracks are relatively long enough to do what you are interested from jumping off from would be fine IMO.

[actual]

I think making specially tailored samples for yourself kinda defeats the purpose, at least it does for me.
Don't really care about the length of the samples, cause like you say, they're gonna get chopped (and possibly screwed) anyway.

[ibarakishi]

sorry, i worded my thoughts wrong actual. I meant that you would be putting samples forward that would be of interest to you, and that it would most likely be something that you would use naturally anyway (because they are being made by you). Things that other people contribute would obviously change your perspective of your own samples and would inspire you maybe to use them in another completely different way (just like you would most likely be using other people's samples in different ways then they naturally would). Hope i worded this better this time. I didn't mean that you would arrange samples to have a song arranged and set in stone. I just simply meant that from my perspective i would naturally approach this by trying to create samples that i thought would be interesting to work with, and hopefully others that used them from the folder would find them interesting to use as well.

[D.o.S.]

This is a good discussion

[UglyCasanova]

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[D.o.S.]

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[fcknoise]

I'd love to join!

[D.o.S.]

Two spots left!

[actual]

sorry, i worded my thoughts wrong actual. I meant that you would be putting samples forward that would be of interest to you, and that it would most likely be something that you would use naturally anyway (because they are being made by you). Things that other people contribute would obviously change your perspective of your own samples and would inspire you maybe to use them in another completely different way (just like you would most likely be using other people's samples in different ways then they naturally would). Hope i worded this better this time. I didn't mean that you would arrange samples to have a song arranged and set in stone. I just simply meant that from my perspective i would naturally approach this by trying to create samples that i thought would be interesting to work with, and hopefully others that used them from the folder would find them interesting to use as well.

I see


This might be premature (premature twss), but I assume Drod will handle mastering again this year? If so, Drod - can I max my shit out at -0.3 or what do you prefer in this regard?
Listened to all the Vol. 1 tracks earlier btw, a lot of cool, creative shit in there.