A possible songwriting collaboration project

AndyJP

Yeah awesome idea.  Defo up for this.

Reaper does me fine.  Love it.

equalsql

That's a bloody good idea. My Reaper song folder is full of half-finished songs, so the chance to get fresh input and a new perspective via such a system would be great. 

randomhandclaps

And usual rules yeah - only stuff recorded in the nude counts?!

paulodrums

bluetinstar said:

I'm in !!

Waiting for more info...

Oh, and what are you talking about paulodrums ?  Reaper works in Win and OS X.  I run Reaper in Yosemite 10.10. 3 on a MacBook pro and on Win 7 pro 64 bit on a Quadcore desktop. Both function brilliantly !

Fred

Hi Fred. Talking about that ohmstudio... I know Reaper does but my DAWs are:

Logic Pro X

Presonus Studio One 2 and 3

Cubase Pro 8

Pro Tools 11

Ableton Live Suite 9

Drew_TNBD

We're looking at some DAW agnostic solutions.

randomhandclaps

Drew_fx said:

We're looking at some DAW agnostic solutions.

Surely everyone owns an Atari ST by now?

Fazer

reaper is quite a 'harmless' install isnt it?
very small and doesnt make a mess everywhere.
the only problem is figuring out how it works etc.

but if people are just swapping full length wav/aiffs then you should be able to work across platforms, no?
just mix it down and then extend the start of track so they all have the same start point

Grunfeld

Drew_fx said:

We're looking at some DAW agnostic solutions.

Yep, what @Fazer said.  I've worked cross platform with Reaper and Cubase and all that's needed are full track audio files cos all DAWs can handle .wav and .aiff.  (Doesn't even need to be the same sample rate and bit depth but probably helps if it's the same.  BPM is handy if you want to add MIDI but after it's added just bounce the MIDI thing down to audio before sharing it onwards.

AndyJP

Don't fear the Reaper guys.

Er, sorry. I'll get my coat.....

bluetinstar

Grunfeld said:

Drew_fx said:

We're looking at some DAW agnostic solutions.

Yep, what @Fazer said.  I've worked cross platform with Reaper and Cubase and all that's needed are full track audio files cos all DAWs can handle .wav and .aiff.  (Doesn't even need to be the same sample rate and bit depth but probably helps if it's the same.  BPM is handy if you want to add MIDI but after it's added just bounce the MIDI thing down to audio before sharing it onwards.

+ 1

Let's just get on with the music can we ?

digitalscream

Hmmm. Kompoz seems to have some pretty neat tools for everything collaborate-y, is completely DAW-agnostic, has plenty of ways to download/upload files (including Dropbox and Google Drive for the bandwidth-conscious, as well as their own client) and - for money - can handle private groups and projects.

User interface seems to be fairly good, too.

Has anybody used it in anger before?

PolarityMan

I'm going on holiday at the weekend, can I kindly request you make sure you dont reach a concensus for 2 weeks to make sure I can still get in early on the actual collaboration

(and by the way the answer is totally reaper).

Drew_TNBD

I don't even use Reaper either, so I'd prefer something that didn't mean I had to use that piece of shit!

PolarityMan

cork sniffer!

Bidley

I'm up for it!

Another vote for Reaper here. I liked it so much I paid for it.

ewal

digitalscream said:

Hmmm. Kompoz seems to have some pretty neat tools for everything collaborate-y, is completely DAW-agnostic, has plenty of ways to download/upload files (including Dropbox and Google Drive for the bandwidth-conscious, as well as their own client) and - for money - can handle private groups and projects.

User interface seems to be fairly good, too.

Has anybody used it in anger before?

Yes. Here's my profile - Scrambler. 

It's three years ago since I toyed with it - I think it had a lot of potential. Lot's of guidance on how to upload things with sync tones etc. Like lots of things, I shoulda persevered with it... I also signed up for Indaba, but felt that was aimed at a musical pool I was less interested in.

Edited to add: might even try finishing writing these tunes now!

PolarityMan

Thanks for waiting for me, Im back now so anyone up for getting started?

spark240

err...ok...so what you gonna do?

PolarityMan

maybe ill dig out something old and half finished and start with that

spark240

I got loads of that ! How do you want it? Wav...MP3...