Re: [LAU] LAU collaboration coordination?

On 2007-11-16 03:03 pm, Frank Pirrone wrote:
> > SO........ 20GB storage, 4TB/mo. bandwidth

Storage is not an issue but bandwidth always is.

> This is absolutely NOT the way to construct a song through on-line
> collaboration. See my postings for an alternative detailed proposal.
> They generated little comment, so I assume little interest, but this
> magnitude of traffic and bandwidth is both whacked and needless.

I totally agree. There are at least 3 levels of involvement,

a) anything light and simple to initially define a song, proof
   of concept songs only have to be MIDI tracks, using say the
   fluidr2 soundfont, along with live medium-fi vorbis tracks

   anyone gets to play on this level, even via 56k dialup from
   Nigeria (ooh, bad example)

b) a semi-pro final mix using flac'd 16bit/44.1khtz audio
   tracks and as many MIDI tracks that can be rendered to 16/44
   locally (without requiring any transfer of large wavs)

   a bit of a compromise but I'm sure the end result could be
   quite satisfactory, and so so much Better Than Nothing

c) if a song, or piece, passes both the previous levels and is
   deemed worthy of super-pro mastering then those intimately
   involved with the piece can make their own arrangments to
   deal with transferring 32bit/96khtz master tracks to wherever
   is going to do the final mix(s) and perhaps use archive.org
   to hold the complete final master mix components

I'd be impressed if I ever see a LAU based a) let alone a b).

A c) by the end of the decade would be too cool.

And just as a note, I am personally interested in GPL-like
songs where the components that went into making the song are
also available somewhere, hence the idea of using Subversion
to deal with some, or even all, parts of a song and indeed it's
entire life cycle of evolvement can be logged and this creative
outline or path is ALSO of great interest to me. A bunch of
guys using collab in "secret" and suddenly releasing a final
mastered ogg to listen to is of little interest to me. How a
song is created with access to the digital parts that make it
up is what I find the most exciting part of this discussion.

Oh, and actually listening to something, as well, would be
kinda cool too :-)

--markc
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Received on Fri Nov 16 08:15:03 2007