ok, here’s a rough draft of some rules (with a few queries :-))… for the “crappiest machine” spec, mine’s an Athlon XP 1.8ghz… anyone with less than that, make yourself known! What do you think guys?
- Participation
i. All participants must provide a working email address to contribute. You can
register at any time.
ii. Each member will be given a number of periods of 3 (??) days to add
their contribution. These will be ordered in a first come, first
served basis, and rotated in order until the song is at a desired
length, which decided by the group.
iii. If you are unable to attend your allocated date, you may ask to either
be pushed to the back of the queue, or you may swap with someone
else, by their permission.
iv. Anyone is entitled to contribute to a “final mix” of the finished song
after completion of all tracks. The “official” final mix will be
decided apon by democratic approval of the group.
v. The title of the song will be decided by democratic approval of the
group. You can call your own bits in the ‘track listing’ whatever you
like though 
- Content and use of features
i. When adding to a song, provide useful documentation on anything you
may have added or changed so that the next person knows it’s there!
Typical comments are along the lines of “VST added to track 1”, or
“Hey, I turned off your reverb on send1!”, etc.
i. You may add as many effects and/or automations to any audio track as you
wish, except any of the following:
Reverb
Delay
Stereo expander
10 band EQ
VST Effects
When adding or changing effects, they must not change the sound of
previous patterns (except the last pattern - see viii.).
ii. You may add as many “send tracks” to each track as you like. You can
add as many effects as you like to each send track.
iii. You may not add any effects to the master track until the time of
final mix.
iv. You may add VST effects or instruments, PROVIDED:
- They are free to -redistribute-
- You provide a copy of the DLLs when you upload the mod (put them in a .zip)
- VST effects are only added to send tracks (or master in final mix)
- They don’t kill the CPU (see vi.).
v. You may not use MIDI.
vi. The minimum spec machine is (?? who’s got the crappest box? :-)). Make
sure that on your 6Ghz dual CPU Opteron 64, the CPU usage meter doesn’t
go over that percentage of power at a reasonable latency setting.
vii. You may import .ogg files. You may not import .mp3 files (due to
licensing problems).
viii. You may make minor edits to the last pattern of the last participant’s
entry for the purpose of blending the music into your own parts. By
“minor edit”, this doesn’t mean you can completely ruin someone’s tune!
Show some respect!
x. You may not add more than 5 minutes (?? comments?) of music to each “slot”.
xi. Aim to keep the file size below 30MB (?? what do you think?).
xii. Use intelligent track names, and try to re-use as many existing
tracks as possible.
- Copyright
i. The finished production will be jointly owned by all participants, but
by contributing, you allow for all decisions relating to its copying and
redistribution to be decided by the democratic vote of all members involved.
ii. Any samples and/or VSTs instruments you add to the music must be free
to redistribute, and must be provided with any submissions made.
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