Rounik Sethi on May 10, 2012 in News 47 comments
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You most definitely can! It's completely up to you whether you go for a more traditional approach and try to re-do the mix for the song... or go wild and remix the song into a different style.
Whatever you choose, happy remixing & good luck!
thank you nice track.
The key is c-minor, and the BPM is 79. I've uploaded the dry vocal at the link below. If the link dies, let me know and I'll put it back up.
Btw, someone mentioned yesterday an issue with Part #9, and just wanted to say thanks for the heads up. We took care of the issue, and it should be fine now.
-Ben
http://www.mediafire.com/?hat33daihgmihng
i appreciated the link for the dry vocal.
and thank you for the other info.
Ameyah
That's a good question and one I didn't address in the contest rules... We haven't stipulated number of entries allowed... I'd suggest submitting no more than 3.
Thanks & good luck!
is 79 BPM correct? Or am I doing something wrong? Has anyone else tried to work out the tempo from the wave files?
Cheers
Darren
That sounds about right. If you divide 158 by 2 you get 79, which is the original tempo of the song. 158 would be the Garage/Drum N' Bass version :)
Just noticed your song and I am leaving it a bit late to start on your remix, but
I only have patial download (just the intro guitars) on part 5 electric guitars. Also the link for the dry vocal has it expired?
Many Thanks
Ron
It's never too late :)
The downloads all work fine here. In the Sound Cloud downloader in this post... click on the name of the stem, e.g. "All Comes Down Bass" and then click the Download button, repeat this process for each stem you'd like to download.
The dry vocals link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?hat33daihgmihng
downloads fine here too. Do try again :)
I might not need to make it shorter, but I was just wondering, incase I get to the deadline and I've got 2:40 done, would it be OK to make my arrangement cut where it fits? ;-)
I would understand if it had to be the whole song - I just wanted to make sure.
Sure! The remix can be as long as you wish it to be. You can choose to follow the original arrangement closely and mix it differently, or create something completely different using some parts of the stems you like!
Take a listen to some of the submissions above to get an idea of how others are interpreting the original song :)
Good luck!
THanks,
Mike M
No restrictions at all :)
Everyone is welcome to submit a remix regardless of experience, ability or equipment. Even if your entry doesn't win the grand prize we hope you learn and enjoy the remixing experience :)
Cheers!
R
I just had to totally agree with that last comment!
I don't normally write in the style that I did my remix in at all (I'm more a piano and vocals girl). The song ideas and melodies just came out of nowhere for me a couple of weekends ago and I just tried to go with the flow :)
Because it was so new to write outside of my comfort zone, I learnt so much and had so much fun in the process....so thanks so much to everyone for putting this remix comp together!! :)
Cheers
Kat :)
This is not an insignificant thing to consider if you're looking for a place! - or even just participating, I suppose.
Obviously these judges are musical and open to any sort of creativity but consider the original style of the piece, watch some of the videos and see what they like and what they appreciate (eg they left some human error in the original piano part to keep the "feel").
This would suggest, it does to me anyway, that even if you run away with an electronic dance-beat version, that you will probably need to make them feel like you've done their song justice. That taking away the human performance element, using none of the original chord progression etc may still win of course, but probably won't sit quite as well as something that, in a sense, "honors" their song.
My mix is almost finished, and while I've completely taken it to a different place (changed chords, notes, replaced style, ripped whole sections out) it can be recognized as the same song... in a weird/fun kind of way.
I felt that was important.
Feel free to ignore these thoughts, it's still a great learning experience in any case.
But that was my philosophy in re-mixing this, and I thought it was worth mentioning.
I never heard that version of the song before:)
Now that I have checked it out on youtube it is true!:)
Oh wow! that's really interesting...
That's what I would call "the collective unconscious" in music!
The reason I ask is, I know some competitions don't permit deleting of entries or updating them once submitted.
Since, if the entries are judged as they come in, the judges can't keep track of changes.
But it looks likes it possible in this one.
I don't think I'd do it, as I'd lose all the views and confuse people, but it's probably worth me asking ;-)
In my case, I just made a few minor changes to sounds and made the volume a little louder overall and I probably would upload again, if possible. But I don't want to do it without permission ;-)
But even if you judged my original, it wouldn't matter to me anyway. I just wanted to make sure the levels were right for future reference.
I didn't make any changes that almost anyone would notice.
Thanks,
Mike M.
your remix is displaying fine here... :)
M.
We've already had 42 entries, and there are still another couple of days till the contest ends.
Just fantastic work, all of you. Thanks so much for putting your heart into this. I'm thrilled, and I imagine Lauren is, too!
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8675979/Lauren%20%20Balthrop%20-%20All%20Comes%20Down%20%28HArtLife%20Remix%29%20Master.mp3
thanks, and follow me on twiterr @laszlo_galosi
How strict is the "no more than 3" rule? I have a fourth idea, that I'd like to finish this evening.
Btw, the contest ends at midnight, right? What midnight do you mean? I'm in Germany and midnight is 14h away... :-)
Thanks!
Good luck everyone!
Just to say good luck to everyone.
I just wanted to say thank you again to all concerened for making these stems available.
I'm new to this coming from many years of tub thumping in live bands. I get very little chance to track, overdubs etc so having these has really taught me a lot and got me off to a good start.
It's been facinating to get a soundcloud account and listen to all the different takes on nicely produced song to and hook up with some of the mixers/Muso's.
I think this could be the start of a different approach to my love of making music.
Nigel@Downstudio
London
That's great to hear and exactly what we hoped to see happen through offering this remix contest!
Big shout out to Ben Arthur and all at DubWays for providing the stems and concept, Lauren for taking the time out to listen to and judge the entries...
... and of course McDSP for providing these awesome prizes and all of those behind the scenes, including Steve H, Kim and Jackie for pulling strings that have made this all possible.
We've enjoyed listening to all the amazingly creative and diverse remixes... so although there can only be 3 "official" winners in this contest... you've all made this a massive success!!
We'll let you know as soon as possible who the winners are... and stay tuned to MPV and The Hub for more remix contests coming up!
Thanks to everyone :)
Rounik
Enjoy!
MIke M
Just wanted to ask....did I miss the link to the video that was going to be posted showing some of the favourites or is it not online anywhere yet?
Very much looking forward to the next contest!
http://www.macprovideo.com/hub/mpv-news/mpv-mcdsp-songcraft-remix-contest-reaction-video
Also, in response to FT's question, yes, feel free to post your mixes on YouTube. We'd just ask that you credit Lauren and MPV :)
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