MCRP v2.0 -- sample drop is live

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- CommentAuthorsoundcyst
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009 edited
sample drop!
http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=6525&page=4#Item_4

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Keepin it on from v1.0: http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=6287

I shot an email to three pops about this, and he's into it.

Here's the deal on twosies.

-- Everyone uploads TWO sound files (for vTWOpointOH!)

The first file should be strictly PERCUSSIVE and no more than 5 seconds long. Think individual drum samples, short and bombastic (or with some decay like a crash), but it doesn't have to be from a drum or kit.

The second sample should be MELODIC and under 30 seconds. This could be harmonic, droney, piano-liney, or whatever.. chunky.

Proposed deadlines are:

-- Samples In -- by Sunday December 13, 11:59pm

-- The Niceness (yo' trax!) -- by Sunday January 3, 11:59pm

These deadlines give us some more leniency for the holidays and whatnot.

Video and art policies are the same.

v3.0 will be in January if we can keep up the steam. if anyone's got proposals for sample concepts or themes or anything for 3.0, let's hear em!
- CommentAuthori am genko
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
i'm in again! this is a great way to keep creative!
- CommentAuthorrawray7
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009 edited
man...you guys move too fast for me...

(keep it up)
- CommentAuthorrent
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
think i might be in again for this one. i like the sound of the new sample submissions and i need to stay busy creatively, like i am genko. school is making me stale as hell right now.
- CommentAuthori am genko
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
so how's this gonna go down? where do we drop the samples off?
- CommentAuthorsoundcyst
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
i'll work on getting a dropbox up in the next couple days.

gotta figure out where it's gonna be hosted first.
- CommentAuthormister_nick
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
if only google wave was public already.
- CommentAuthorsoundcyst
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
if you want an invite, let me know.. i don't feel like wave provides the right features to consolidate the sample library into a convenient zip.
- CommentAuthormister_nick
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
oh, i have one, but everyone doesn't.
and im sure with time it will.
- CommentAuthoregon77
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
I like the idea of concepts or themes. Not sure yet what I'd propose but I do like the goal. I will be thinking about it.
- CommentAuthorfeedingbirds
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
I'm in this time.
- CommentAuthorvisinin
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
in again as well.
- CommentAuthorpauk
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009 edited
I'll try it too. but some more time will be good
- CommentAuthorthesuperorganism
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
i just cant really do it again this month, i have exams and this set i have to finish making for new years, etc..., but im certainly in for v3.0, :(
- CommentAuthorwatson
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
Im in. Maybe consider soundcloud as a host? It has good commenting abilities and you can create playlists. Also, all forthcoming MCRP tracks can live there in a MEGA-PLAYLIST!!!!! Mwa ha ha ha!
- CommentAuthorrross101
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
I'm tentatively in...
- CommentAuthorhypno|sapien
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
I'd like to get in this time. :)
- CommentAuthormaersk (dovemouse)
- CommentTimeDec 3rd 2009
i should be able to do this again.
- CommentAuthortalks
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
I'm in for another round. Don't sample as much as I should. This is good exercise.

I don't know if I like the one percussive, one melodic rule. It's restrictive in a way. But yeah, last time we were pretty limited on drum choices.

And I was the only one to use the Bambata sample! (used the hell out of it though.)
- CommentAuthori am genko
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
i could never get that bambata sample to open!
- CommentAuthormaersk (dovemouse)
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
nah it was a little bit corrupt ;)
- CommentAuthorrent
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
drums were definitely limited last time, that's why i liked the idea of knowing what everyone was going to be sharing.
- CommentAuthori am genko
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
yeah... this'll give us more options for sure.

+1 on the 1 drum sample, 1 melodic sample.
- CommentAuthorsursiks
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
does soundcloud provide the right tools to compile things into a zip? we could just start a wave, sending samples to one another, and you could flashgot all dl links to get all the stuff… uh, maybe not, too complicated. but i imagine there has to be a widget somewhere… or rather, there will be in a year or so. damn it.

whatev. i'm for sure down this time. winter break=(relatively) more time, enough time for musical madness.
- CommentAuthortalks
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
Idunno. I kinda felt like not knowing exactly what we were getting until the unzip was part of the fun.

Would a vocal sample (say someone talking) be considered melodic?

Whatever, I'm sure most of us on here can turn a sample of an elephant pissing on a tin shed into Spanish guitar if we really wanted to.
- CommentAuthorclarity
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
yeah cool count me in
- CommentAuthorrent
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
maybe we could require everyone to submit either a melodic or percussion track, and also have the option to upload another random sample of their choice...?
- CommentAuthoregon77
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
+1 for not knowing. My favorite aspect of this project was taking a sample that has absolutely no resemblance to a bass sound and making it a bass sound. That's the great thing about the tools at our fingertips.

I think that the goal of this project should be to challenge us. I think it might be good to hold to threes rule about not using your own sample as well. As for two samples, I think that's all good.

I think it would even be cool to restrict ourselves a little more by giving us a genre to attempt or we upload one rhythm sample and one sample from a particular genre. I don't know why but I keep wanting to say that we upload at least one Ennio Morricone sample. Maybe I just want to do something in that style right now. Ah well.
- CommentAuthori am genko
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
@talks

dude... could you actually get that elephant sample? hahahaha.
- CommentAuthorsoundcyst
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
heheh. i use a really awesome ennio morricone sample in my vass glenison sets..

agreed about challenging us.. i dunno how i feel about not using your own sample as a rule as much as a general principle.. it may just fit in perfectly, ya know?

> maybe we could require everyone to submit either a melodic or percussion track, and also have the option to upload another random sample of their choice...?

my only apprehension with that was getting a whole bunch of one, and not much of another... although that could have insane results.. and could be very challenging..

i'm inclined to say let's keep the one drum one melodic for 2.0, then do something like one drumORmelodic one random sample for 3.0.. if we're doing one a month, there'll definitely be time to get everyone's ideas in.
- CommentAuthori am genko
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
+1 on crossing bridges when we get to 'em and feeling shit out as we go along
- CommentAuthorwatson
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009 edited
we could also rotate who picks the rules. dosent have to be the same each time! soundcyst could take the lead on 2.0 and someone else could choose parameters for 3.0. keep it fresh, keep it challenging.
- CommentAuthorsoundcyst
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
> we could also rotate who picks the rules. dosent have to be the same each time! soundcyst could take the lead on 2.0 and someone else could choose parameters for 3.0. keep it fresh, keep it challenging.

+1
- CommentAuthorsursiks
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
i'm with watson.
i think the central point is that a drum sample and a melodic sample can be a huge number of things, point is to focus it down and ensure basic variety. telling me there are two samples, one drum one melodic tells me nothing about the actual samples i'm going to get. it's unspecific enough to work.
for example: i'm currently planning on dropping a recording of a choir in trace state for the melodic sample. is it melodic? not really. can you do cool things with it? hells yes.
- CommentAuthorthesuperorganism
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
+1 for no rules, it will sort itself out, thats part of the fun, no judging of samples, thats the ultimate no frills way to keep it fresh...if no one uploads a drum sample one of the times, (highly unlikely) then so be it...do your best and cool stuff wiill still be made
- CommentAuthorthree
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
i like the idea of no rules on samples either, you could really make a drum beat out of any 2 or 3 sounds anyway. its repetition more so than kick, snare, hi-hat.

anyway, im down for round 2. soundcyst, im here for help but it looks like you've got it under control. im looking forward to being able to spend more time on the track and not the admin stuff.
- CommentAuthortehn
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
hey all, i have obviously been hiding in a barn or something, but the mcrp 1.0 is outstanding. great work everyone. i posted it to the front page in hopes of getting more plays. looking forward to round 2.
- CommentAuthorphortran
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
i said i'd do #1 but never got around to finishing it (man that deadline snuck up on me!)

i am definitely not missing out on this one! listening to 1.0 now and it's wonderful. great work guys.
- CommentAuthorwatson
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
So clearly there is disagreement on rules/no rules, etc. I think that rotating the "theme" if you will, would give us an opportunity to both operate within a framework and then perhaps thesuperorganism can dictate the parameters of 3.0 and those might just be "no parameters".

Also, I think soundcyst's idea for a percussive sound and melodic sample are open-ended. Percussive: "it doesn't have to be from a drum or kit", and melodic: "This could be harmonic, droney, piano-liney, or whatever.. chunky". I think sursiks sample of a choir would be perfect for a "melodic" sample. Am I right?
- CommentAuthorrratleph
- CommentTimeDec 4th 2009
I missed the first round so count me in on this one.

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