#1 April 29th 2009 1:25 PM - 30 songs in 30 days

SoundMatrix
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After talking to PDF Format on #8bc about this I decided I was going to do it, but the more the merrier.

The idea of it is that in a timeframe of 30 days you are to write 30 songs. These songs can be a 10 second long melody and bassline or an epic, melodic 15 minute long piece.

There is little chance of actually completing 30 masterpieces, but that isn't the point. The point is to push your boundaries of what you would normally do.

Anyone interested?



Only rule is that each day you upload whatever progress you've made and put it into one file which is uploaded to 8bc, regardless of previous posts.

For example, I write 1 song and an idea on the first day, I record these into 1 mp3 and upload with the title "30 songs, 30 days challenge - Day 1".

The next day I'd record the same again and anything extra. This would be called "30 songs, 30 days challenge - Day 2".

...and so on.


Participants:
SoundMatrix
Odori
the ant boy
CalmDownKidder
vein|gesa
samthorn10
swampyboy
nitro2k01
JonnyRiddle (I think)
Nu-hu-meila
little-scale
TristEndo
MM
kraze

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#2 April 29th 2009 1:27 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

Odori
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i'd do this.
but the 30 songs, its a bit much.
maybe 10?
but then again, i suppose you're pushing yourself more if it's a longer time period... smile

 

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#3 April 29th 2009 1:31 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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would be totally up for this after college ends in a couple months...


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#4 April 29th 2009 1:38 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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Odori wrote:

i'd do this.
but the 30 songs, its a bit much.
maybe 10?
but then again, i suppose you're pushing yourself more if it's a longer time period... smile

Has to be 30. At least an attempt at 30 without slacking.

 

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#5 April 29th 2009 1:39 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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Jonnyriddle wrote:

would be totally up for this after college ends in a couple months...

I'm doing it from Friday if people want to join.

 

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#6 April 29th 2009 1:42 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

Odori
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i'm in then.
smile

 

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#7 April 29th 2009 1:42 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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My music is rubbish, but maybe i'd get better if i made a song every day for a month. I'll do this if you don't mind smile

 

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#8 April 29th 2009 1:45 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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the ant boy wrote:

My music is rubbish, but maybe i'd get better if i made a song every day for a month. I'll do this if you don't mind smile

By all means join in.

I'm gonna be posting links to uploads in this thread with some comments maybe. That could be a good way to do it.

And I'll update the first post with participants.

 

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#9 April 29th 2009 1:51 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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Hmmm, I need to get back into the music making game, maybe something like this will force some creativity onto me, I'm not too keen on uploading each one to 8bc though, can I put them on my server them maybe make a "best of" and put that on 8bc? 8bc is clogged up with enough shit as it is wink


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#10 April 29th 2009 1:53 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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I think like, when youve made day 2, which includes all the tracks up to day 2, maybe your allowed to remove day 1... So that when youve finished, there's still only one track up, but its a really long track with 30 combined. so it wouldn't clog it up as much maybe?

 

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#11 April 29th 2009 1:59 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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I only said upload to 8bc as that is the only easy server space available to me.

But a daily upload is a good thing. It gives people a reason not to slack off.


I just realised that each person having 30 tracks might clog things up a bit.

Perhaps going with the ant boys idea would be best. To delete the previous day with the new update.

What do people think?

 

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#12 April 29th 2009 2:13 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

vitrics
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I think I'm in. I love the idea.
Ant boys suggestion makes sense, and will free up space. Unless someone has some spare server space to let everyone upload their 30day stuff to.

If each days tracks are getting combined into one super long track, should there be a specific sized gap left inbetween or maybe some sort of noise to symbolise the end of that days progress (just so anyone else listening back will have an idea of whats going on)?

 

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#13 April 29th 2009 2:15 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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i was just going to put microsoft sam saying "day one", "day two:" etc, between tracks...

 

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#14 April 29th 2009 2:16 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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About 5 seconds between things should be enough.

It doesn't have to be ages just make sure that one song is clearly over.

 

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#15 April 29th 2009 2:20 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

vitrics
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Ah right, cool.
Microsoft sam, nice. Full of ideas today ant boy wink

 

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#16 April 29th 2009 2:35 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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I will do this sounds fun maybe it will show off if i got any lsdj talent lol tongue

Im in big_smile

 

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#17 April 29th 2009 3:02 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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its a great idea, but i agree it will take up a lot of space to upload a track a day here. i was thinking maybe upload something every 7 days, which represents what you have made over the week, then the submissions will also appear on the front page which may also prompt more people to get involved. it could be in the format of a medley of the last 7 songs, or clips of each song, or a mix, or simply the songs back to back. sound good?


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#18 April 29th 2009 3:07 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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what i would do ...or will do when i do this... would be to upload the new song each day
delete it the next day
and upload just that days song

at the end of the 30 days put all 30 in a zip file and upload to mediafire or whatever
then link that in this thread


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#19 April 29th 2009 3:09 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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jonnyriddle read my mind

does this track have to be strictly chiptune? or can we add some samples, vst's etc...?  (i probably wont JW)

 

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#20 April 29th 2009 3:18 PM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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Jonnyriddle wrote:

what i would do ...or will do when i do this... would be to upload the new song each day
delete it the next day
and upload just that days song

at the end of the 30 days put all 30 in a zip file and upload to mediafire or whatever
then link that in this thread

kickass idea!


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#21 April 30th 2009 12:59 AM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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samthorn10 wrote:

jonnyriddle read my mind

does this track have to be strictly chiptune? or can we add some samples, vst's etc...?  (i probably wont JW)

The idea of it is that in a timeframe of 30 days you are to write 30 songs. These songs can be a 10 second long melody and bassline or an epic, melodic 15 minute long piece.

I think the idea is to force some creativity into you rather than apply shedloads of rules onto the thing, As long as all 30 of your tracks aren't a downloaded MIDI file applied to a load of 8-bit VSTs wink


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#22 April 30th 2009 1:36 AM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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I'd like to give this a try.

 

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#23 April 30th 2009 1:47 AM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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Also, let's release a torrent with all songs when we're all done, and maybe a torrent for each day or every x days.

 

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#24 April 30th 2009 6:28 AM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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Yea, all sounding good to me.
A track a day to 8bc deleting the previous days work, then zipped file including all tracks at the end, seems the best option.
Means anybody listening in on the 27th day doesn't have to listen to  the 26 days work before it.

I'm also a fan of nitro2k01's idea of releasing as a torrent.

 

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#25 April 30th 2009 8:25 AM - Re: 30 songs in 30 days

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a torrent would be great
plus, it'd give me a reason to actually seed something for once
hah


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