Weekly Beats 2018 starting... now!

staRpauSe

https://weeklybeats.com/ to register

I did this in 2016, nearly everything made with Korg Gadget (stems at https://blend.io/starpause) and am planning to jump back in this year! Just got BM3 and iMPC Pro 2, see if it's worth branching out from Gadget yet

staRpauSe

edit: redacted

JohnnyGoodyear

Was suspicious (wrong word), but listened to some of your stuff and was suitably impressed.

When you say 'beat of the month' perhaps you could outline a little more what you expectations are? Some of us do a Song of the Month Club here and I find it pretty hard to keep up with that, but am committed to the project. As a songwriter more than a musician, the idea of working more on music in 2018 is attractive/probably a good move. But it would have to be an 'AND' not an 'INSTEAD OF' so the scope of work would be good to know

Heiliger_Bimbam

This is a nice project. Thanks for posting.

Edit: Allright, signed in.

jwmmakerofmusic

Hey @staRpauSe , is there a way to convert files to .mp3 on the iPad? All the apps I use seem to favour .m4a as the lossy format of choice, and I want to avoid my PC if I can help it.

Heiliger_Bimbam

@jwmmakerofmusic said:
Hey @staRpauSe , is there a way to convert files to .mp3 on the iPad? All the apps I use seem to favour .m4a as the lossy format of choice, and I want to avoid my PC if I can help it.

AudioShare should do the trick

edit: no it doesnt... nevermind

jwmmakerofmusic

@Heiliger_Bimbam said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:
Hey @staRpauSe , is there a way to convert files to .mp3 on the iPad? All the apps I use seem to favour .m4a as the lossy format of choice, and I want to avoid my PC if I can help it.

AudioShare should do the trick

edit: no it doesnt... nevermind

I wish it did. AudioShare doesn’t, Auria doesn’t, Cubasis doesn’t, Hokusai doesn’t, Xewton Music Studio doesn’t. Lol, does Apple have a rage-boner against the mp3 format or something?

SlowMotion

Starting now.. in 6 days 2 hours 4 minutes 22 seconds

JRSIV

I signed up and will try it out. Deadlines are good for motivation/finishing projects.
I want to do the SOTM Club in the coming year as well. Guess these are my resolutions...on second thought, New Year's resolutions usually don't have a very good shelf life...fingers crossed, do work.

hacked_to_pieces

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Heiliger_Bimbam said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:
Hey @staRpauSe , is there a way to convert files to .mp3 on the iPad? All the apps I use seem to favour .m4a as the lossy format of choice, and I want to avoid my PC if I can help it.

AudioShare should do the trick

edit: no it doesnt... nevermind

I wish it did. AudioShare doesn’t, Auria doesn’t, Cubasis doesn’t, Hokusai doesn’t, Xewton Music Studio doesn’t. Lol, does Apple have a rage-boner against the mp3 format or something?

Twisted Wave exports mp3

jwmmakerofmusic

@hacked_to_pieces said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Heiliger_Bimbam said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:
Hey @staRpauSe , is there a way to convert files to .mp3 on the iPad? All the apps I use seem to favour .m4a as the lossy format of choice, and I want to avoid my PC if I can help it.

AudioShare should do the trick

edit: no it doesnt... nevermind

I wish it did. AudioShare doesn’t, Auria doesn’t, Cubasis doesn’t, Hokusai doesn’t, Xewton Music Studio doesn’t. Lol, does Apple have a rage-boner against the mp3 format or something?

Twisted Wave exports mp3

Thanks mate. I’ll get that.

enc

I can only dream of finishing one song a week

Good luck with the project

BiancaNeve

Even the guys who invented the MP3 format have abandoned it now.

RedSkyLullaby

@jwmmakerofmusic said:
Hey @staRpauSe , is there a way to convert files to .mp3 on the iPad? All the apps I use seem to favour .m4a as the lossy format of choice, and I want to avoid my PC if I can help it.

I think maybe final touch can also

Richtowns

^ Audio Mastering also

jwmmakerofmusic

Trash80 added m4a compatibility!!! Damn I’m good. Phew, m4a is the better lossy format anyways.

staRpauSe

Cool to see a few of you got into this! And it's never too late to start either

@JohnnyGoodyear said:
Was suspicious (wrong word), but listened to some of your stuff and was suitably impressed.

Aaahaha, thank you, glad I made the cut

When you say 'beat of the month' perhaps you could outline a little more what you expectations are?

Hmm... weeklybeats is a personal challenge so everyone approaches it differently. There are definitely some singer/songwriters cranking material out. For me it's pretty literal: writing a beat ever week. So I typically layer things up in a loop until I feel the beat is complete then I'll do some arrangement so it's a bit more listenable... sometimes find time to do a variation or add some flair, usually wind up with a track around 2 minutes.

This year I'm also into photogrammetry so I'm making a 3d model every week and uploading my beat as a soundtrack to it on sketchfab... kind of like a music video but it's 2018 so everything is different now in the future!

@BiancaNeve said:
Even the guys who invented the MP3 format have abandoned it now.

The patent expired, now mp3 can be more universally implemented, kind of the opposite of dead. Even if it's not the most effecient lossy encoding, it does a fine job (I always use 320cbr) and plays back everywhere.

@RedSkyLullaby said:
I think maybe final touch can also

Yes to final touch being able to export mp3. I used that a lot last year, this year I'm giving LANDR a run for it's money.

@jwmmakerofmusic said:
Trash80 added m4a compatibility!!! Damn I’m good. Phew, m4a is the better lossy format anyways.

Glad ya got sorted!