The Telenator.
The TelenatorYes, adimatis, thank you for your kind words. Glad you enjoy what I share on the forum sometimes. I know a few of us have questioned this forum’s health and continued existence, but sharing here now and then can be a refreshing break from lengthy staring into computer screens, clicking on things and adjusting settings and whatnot.
I find this particular topic most fascinating. I don’t think we men have ever in any way discouraged women from using this technology, but they have seemed rather slow to embrace it until recently. The few I have observed posting in forums seem knowledgeable and quite interested in making good use of this kind of software for creating music. And they are certainly better behaved than so many of the men, as some of the other forums veer toward battle zones and the Wild, Wild West these days. I don’t wonder at all why we don’t see more participation from them in forum threads!
druidWhoops! Yes, like I was saying, I doubted the intent was of that sinister nature which I indicated. It was more meant to be a comment about the appropriateness of such a question, and if it really needed to be asked, mere curiosity or no, but yeah, don’t take my comment too seriously. I know this is general chat.
Hey you know, for the sake of curiosity though, how many people who have gender-switched do we have on here? 🙂
LevendisI’ve noticed a few effeminate usernames, but primarily assume this forum to be genderless.
I admire your directness, MLS.
Plan B: A thread calling for collabs with female vocalists.
MLSThanks for your comments always kind and balanced!
As you saw, I don’t always manage to be so, but I’m in good company. I don’t add anything to not make the discussion even more fiery.
Plan B:
That is one of the roads (ways?) that could have taken this topic. We took the uphill. With your proposal, I hope that finally we will go downhill. 😉
On SoundCloud I’ve already found something really interesting, but the website has some very strong restrictions for uploading and sometimes it does not allow me to publish the track even with the consent of the “owning” user.
Levendis@MLS wrote:
On SoundCloud I’ve already found something really interesting…
I’m curious, do tell…
@MLS wrote:
…but the website has some very strong restrictions for uploading and sometimes it does not allow me to publish the track even with the consent of the “owning” user.
Two of my friends have had similar issues. One gets an error message 30 seconds into an upload. The other had a track removed on suspicion of plagiarism.
I’m guessing that SoundCloud scans uploads and compares it to a database of acoustic fingerprints. Personally, I’m pessimistic about the enforcement of intellectual property rights. It restricts musical culture, penalising artists like Cassetteboy and Girl Talk. I’m also skeptical about owning ideas.
MLS@Levendis wrote:
One gets an error message 30 seconds into an upload. The other had a track removed on suspicion of plagiarism.
I’m guessing that SoundCloud scans uploads and compares it to a database of acoustic fingerprints.
It’s exactly the same thing that happens to me!
Yes, I think they are using a system of that type. YouTube also uses it, however, is less “fussy”.
I have two names: Neli CoKo and rekado.
The first is a German girl (“big butterfly” :D), singer and percussionist: I made a new version of her song “Bro”, I’d like to have your opinion (if you want to listen to it, pm me your email address).
The second is a boy who lives in China: I’m very interested in his song “Almost Invisible”.
Then, there are also C Rose, Baigilabs, etc…
I like things homemade or…almost. 😉
The TelenatorHaha! Perhaps if DAW forums had online dating inclusive or perhaps started there a sub-forum containing such, members of those forums would drop the regular use of flaming, 4-letter obscenities, and the ridiculous immature behavior! To me, THAT alone would be worth 10X the dating feature!
On a more realistic note, I believe the gang at Ohm Force started it with their release of a brand new DAW — Ohm Studio — that is made specifically for online collaboration (to the detriment of less attention given to its core work features). It goes online immediately upon booting it up I believe, and further I heard it is difficult to use offline. Regardless of the details of it, within 6 months of its release online collaboration had truly taken off in many other quarters. I doubt any of us are surprised at this; to me, it seemed to be the logical ‘next frontier’ in home recording and its time had come. (Personally, I insist on working alone when it comes to my own material these days, so I won’t be participating unless it were others’ works and for hire only.)
I mentioned in passing earlier in this thread that I’ve had one exchange in a thread with a member of the other species. I was not even aware of this at first, being the absent-minded sort I tend to be and not bothering to even look at her avatar or name. But after a few posts, I sensed somehow from her words or tone that I might be communicating with a female, checked her info, and . . . sure enough. Her comments were quite informed, intelligent, mature, and having no obvious attitude of sarcasm — something I see only about half of the time in the male population of members in that forum. I would certainly hope for more posts of the same qualities and from either gender. Perhaps more participation from women will serve to ‘clean up’ those troll and poser-infested places, because, as it stands now, I find that entering many forums is similar to visiting S&M parlours. One must always keep one’s guard up!
SoundCloud. You know they are only doing this to save themselves from potential legal troubles later. The fines in the EU and US are extremely high for having any part in what might be ruled plagiarism by a court of law. George Harrison paid more than $330k USD in mid-’70s dollars for his ‘My Sweet Lord’, an all-too-obvious melody and arrangement rip off of the song ‘He’s So Fine’. When I served on ASCAP during my early 30s, the fine was an absolute minimum of $175k and that was per song, not per offending artist, per performance or per album!
I would so much love to see the algorithm they are using for this, as I expect it is not a very good one from all the complaints I am hearing. The same is likely true of other websites. There have been severe toughenings of various laws lately, beginning in the EU, lately the leader in protections of intellectual property. If you ever wish to know what your country of residence will be doing about the issue, you only need look to the EU, as most civilised nations follow their lead soon after. I can tell you what the international law used to be, if you are interested, as it may still be the same: You cannot have any musical work that contains 5 (five) notes in sequence that are of the same pitch and rhythmic structure. (There’s more, of course, but this is the bedrock ruling.) Any works recorded, performed or submitted for copyright that break this must credit the original composer of such works included, and must make arrangements to remunerate on schedule for any accrued royalties, etc., etc. Artists who do song ‘remixes’ and related have entered very dodgy times currently I am afraid to say, as I believe the laws were recently changed to include these techniques.