What´s about making a Sampler-CD from kX-users?!

TravelRec.

Hi all!

I heard some of your songs in the last time and I found them great and inspirative. So I had the idea to make a Sampler-CD (since I´m on a studio here ) with your music. If you want to give me your stuff, I can compile it and make a small edition of pure kX-music in the highest possible quality (and with a picturized case and so on). But there´s a very important condition: I can only use tracks you made of your own (so no cover versions) and the music must be kX-created. You can send me your stuff via CD, so *.wav or *.aif with 48kHz/16Bit. I will try to make a good mastering and then I will try to sell the CD around to get a bit money that can fully reflow to the kX-project, finally you can order CDs to sell around your location. If you want to participate: reply here!
I will post an address, if there is some interest.

trevbushell

i'd be up for that, great idea travelrec!!

not sure if my music is of good enough quality though, my mix is not so good. if you have listened to my music and think it would be ok for c.d let me know and i will send you the wav files of the ones you like, (i have more too.) my songs were made with kx.

trev

trevbushell

ps how much do you pay us?
(joke!)
trev

dj_stick

i'd be part of this - but i would like any proceeds from my tracks to go straight to eugene

EDIT: if you need any help with album art let me know

TravelRec.

Okay, I would say, all the people here they want to be part of it, should make a track that reflects the composer´s relationship to music, no matter what kind of music this may be. The track should be >3 minutes of length, to give the listener the possibility to "flow" into the sound. If you think, your mix is not okay, I can mix the sound up (I use CubaseSX1.06 for mixing), but I think it´s better, if all of the sound comes from the composer itself. I only try to make a song mastering, so that the general sound of all tracks is not too different and quite fat . I will also create a track for the first project. You don´t have to think, that I want to make money with your songs, I only ask you, whether you want to give some support back to kX and encourage some other users, what you can realize, if using a customer soundcard and a piece of damn good software! For you this project may be a window to the world, just a fun with a bit more... BTW, I think about a price of only some EUR/$ and and if someone want to pay more, to make a bigger donation to kX, why not.

@ dj, thanks for your offer to make a cover design, I think it´s a good idea.

horsesarevermin

This sounds like a fantastic idea. Please count me in! I will be more than happy to donate any percentage that I would possibly make to Eugene. I am guilty to admit that I've been using and depending on his drivers for ages, and haven't paid him the respect or donations he rightly deserves.
I am really excited about this project Travel Rec! I know that I'm very new to these forums, but I can see (and hear) some extremely tallented and like-minded folks who together make using a soundcard driver into a real community. The CD is going to be a winner!

trevbushell

yes i agree wholeheartedly....i think that all proceeds should go to kx, i dont think we should recieve any money ourselves.
trev

TravelRec.

Yes, thats the intention behind, everyone gives a small investment of time and brain and at the end there is (hopefully) a powerful support to the kX-project. Once upon ago there was a T-shirt idea, but I think, this will be more specific to that what kX really means. You all are welcome!

Address for the sounds to send:

TravelRec.-Mobilstudio
Postfach (P.O-Box) 18 19
38808 Halberstadt / Germany

Please tell me if you sent some material so that I can go to receive it. Thank you!

dj_stick

i probably won't be able to send any hard media

but i can upload .wav onto the net

TravelRec.

Thanks dj for making this sticky here!

Uploading wave in the net is fine, but I can´t download it unfortunately due to bandwith-limitation. What´s the poblem with a CD? You can take the little CD-Rom with space for 20 minutes of 44.1 music or 250MB Data. It fits into a letter... ok, no guarantee at all...

Eugene Gavrilov

great idea I have some mp3s I saved some time ago, but we will need to browse this forum and find the authors...
--
I will send dj_stick some kX-related clipart for the CD-cover
I guess it should be audio-cd, not mp3/data... but with data section/track with the driver binary and some kx-related stuff (just for promotion)

E.

trevbushell

hi travelrec,

i wonder if there needs to be a "c.d's should be in by" date for this , otherwise i can see it maybe going on without an end? maybe a closing date of october or something??
what do you think?

just wondering also...what if you get inundated with LOADs of songs travelrec?? should there be a voting system for the best 12 or something... i dunno just thinking of potential issues that may come up?

trev

dj_stick

no problem
shipping costs to germany from australia
i can probable get a CD mailing case, and i'll see how much it costs

i can make a pop-up "webpage" style autorun, with some words and links to the kX website

trevbushell

dj you could send me wav files by email (or put on net and i'll download?) and I'll put them onto cd and send them to travelrec, im from england and postage from here is cheap!

would this work for you?

i guess it should all be wav otherwise we get loss of quality?
trev

dj_stick

that would help a good deal

thank you

trevbushell

ok no problem... let me know when your ready and we'll organise

trev

Tiger M

I like the idea, I will send you a track TravelRec. Would it be a problem if it is already mastered?

TravelRec.

Yes Eugene -

another great idea too, no problem to make a "extra"-CD that contains the music and some computer data. And yes, it should be an audio CD with real audio-tracks 44.1 on best possible quality (use a special plug to resample the kX48wav to 44.1). Finally some nice features like CD-Text wil be added.
Thank you for your support !

TravelRec.

Hehe, cool way - we should bring up a data headquarter in england to collect all the waves from the net . And before I forget, 48kHz waves are the best choice for quality.

TravelRec.

No, Tiger - not a problem - if it sounds good, no need to change anything. I think about some words about each song and how it was created and so on. I hope there is enough space in the booklet to do this.

dj_stick

travelrec - my idea for the few words etc is this

have the CD extra style thing going on, so save maybe 10mb on the CD for that

have a html page popup with credits on each song, with details like sequencer used, style of music, and some words from the artist - we can fit much more on then
That's something i've done a few times when making CD's with audio aswell

trevbushell

did you see this earlier post travelrec? any thoughts?
trev

TravelRec.

Yeah, okay trev, seen that. For now I have nothing and if lot of songs are coming in, we can decide together, what we want to do. I think we should do one step after the other . But it´s okay to talk about. If there are enough good songs , I put them on the CD and we will finish the first sampler and stop the song collecting for a while, to see if there will be a corresponding resonance / feedback. If all is okay, then we can go on to make a 2nd sampler.

@dj - okay, we can do so, do you want to create the html stuff too? I think also about a special part on electricstart that will have some information about the whole thing.

Thank you all for the great input in these early times .

Eugene Gavrilov

TravelRec:
just let me know by e-mail when the compilation is finished -- I will have a look

djstick:
drop me an e-mail when you finish the data part of the CD and the cover

E.

dj_stick

the tracklisting needs to be completed before i can finish the cover, and for the data part i need a few words from artists submitting their work, maybe a small 400x400 cover art image aswell

when i finalize the design i'll let everyone know exactly what i need