Cool! Glad to hear people are into trying this out.
Here's what I'm gonna do: by 5pm tomorrow we'll see who is in the rotation by responses to the thread. I will use a random number generator to create a roster based on the participants. If someone comes to the thread late, we can add them later on in the roster.
As far as bpm goes: yes, it would be a good idea to post what bpm you are working with. this doesn't mean you can't change it by slowing things down or speeding them up. Sometimes things get so mushed that a bpm is not really identifiable, so I would say post if if you can, if not then the next person in line just has to adapt.
I think keeping things with separate track might get a bit unwieldy, so it makes most sense if each person just mixes their contribution down to one track.
I think we should maybe use
http://soundcloud.com/ to share the audio. I have created an FOT Labs group there
http://soundcloud.com/groups/fot-labsFor those of you who might be beginners in audio production,
http://www.freesound.org/ is a great source for audio samples. If you don't already have software,
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ is a free cross-platform audio editor you can use. there is also a Windows version of Acid Pro 6 (of dubious legality) posted
here if you want to play around.
so pretty much I am thinking that this is a "no rules" experiment, with the exception of the fact that you must incorporate the previous person's audio track into your own.
There also might come an instance where (for whatever reason) there is nothing else you can do to the previous track (or maybe it's perfect at that point, and you don't want to mess with it). In this case, you can "fold" and start a new one fresh. make sense?
any thoughts? I can't wait to get started on this!
