I have a friend that has his BA in Music from Berklee. He specializes in death metal though. Strange but true. Anyway, he has been helping me write music for my death metal band, Vile. There are very few drummers that can play this stuff and so I would send him the riffs to a click and he would write the beats in MIDI on his computer and send em back. Eventually I got a real drummer to play the stuff we wrote in the studio. But it is a very cool situation.
I told him that what he did for me has got to be needed by tons of musicians out there and if only they could somehow get access to this kind of service. So we decided to start writing a library of beats that pertain this this kind of music that people could download and paste together to make their own sounds. Way better than using a drum machine and way more fun! We think we could offer MIDI versions for people that have the ability to use a MIDI program and also audio versions for people that dont want to mess with MIDI. The atvantage to using the MIDI would be that you could make the tempos that you want and you can supply your own sounds. With the audio versions we could use a variety of sounds and offer the beats with your choice of sounds and pick from various common tempos.
The idea is not to get rich on this but to charge a small fee for the effort.
Would you guys think about this and offer any ideas you think might help to make this an even better idea? I mean we have this super talented death metal drummer that programs his beats in the computer very easily and quickly. Why not put this guy to use?!!
I had him send me some sample beats with just some cheap sounds but they give you an idea of some of the beats he can offer and you can hear what were talking about. You can right click on the folder and save it to your own computer. Leave the original folder in the FTP though.
go to: ftp://imperialmastering.zftp.com/
user name is: darren#imperialmastering.zftp.com
password is vile
Cheers,
Colin
I told him that what he did for me has got to be needed by tons of musicians out there and if only they could somehow get access to this kind of service. So we decided to start writing a library of beats that pertain this this kind of music that people could download and paste together to make their own sounds. Way better than using a drum machine and way more fun! We think we could offer MIDI versions for people that have the ability to use a MIDI program and also audio versions for people that dont want to mess with MIDI. The atvantage to using the MIDI would be that you could make the tempos that you want and you can supply your own sounds. With the audio versions we could use a variety of sounds and offer the beats with your choice of sounds and pick from various common tempos.
The idea is not to get rich on this but to charge a small fee for the effort.
Would you guys think about this and offer any ideas you think might help to make this an even better idea? I mean we have this super talented death metal drummer that programs his beats in the computer very easily and quickly. Why not put this guy to use?!!
I had him send me some sample beats with just some cheap sounds but they give you an idea of some of the beats he can offer and you can hear what were talking about. You can right click on the folder and save it to your own computer. Leave the original folder in the FTP though.
go to: ftp://imperialmastering.zftp.com/
user name is: darren#imperialmastering.zftp.com
password is vile
Cheers,
Colin
