h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You might have already done this but, if not, have a click on my PS and...

Nah, actually it'll be easier if I pop the links here.

http://www.mugfungus.com/

http://roymondoh2g2.googlepages.com/home

The former is my musical alter ego, the latter has a couple of songs I recorded when h2g2's italics changed a year or so back.

'Don Paulione' refers to Paully, a chap that left h2g2 to work on Dr Who. You'll hear why this information is relevant!

Roy. I hadn't checked the links before due to work's dastardly internet blockage. Checked the first one today. Good stuff! I like the electronica ones and Nipples and Jog On. I'm going to give Jog On to my other work's (bar job) boss who says 'jog on' more than the word 'the'. She does the music on quiet nights so you might get played in hull's coolest late orders bar.

I don't really put my stuff on the net due to rampant apathy.

however, here is a hastily constructed myspace purely for your listening pleasure http://www.myspace.com/227837999

And here is my electro collective. Which is a complete mess.

http://www.myspace.com/homesweethomehull

The Speaker is formed!

We're going for close-harmony/barbershop/rat-pack esq versions of classic gangsta rap to the tunes of cult american tv shows. With speed garage basslines.

So far we're working on 'Shook ones' by Mobb deep to the theme from Quantum leap.

Protekt ya Neck by the Wu-tang clan to the theme from I Dream of Genie

K.I.M by EPMD to the theme from the A-team

Papparazzi by Xzibit to the theme from Airwolf. This is proving very difficult though.

'Allo.

Toward the end of this thread an interesting prospect crops up. Do you have any ideas?

Erm, this might help: F9057099?thread=4946397

The prospect that the intro to airwolf might be in 7/8 or something?

The Speaker disbanded, due to Will Smith related creative differences. Never even got to do a gig/ terrorise an open mic night.

I don't know. Enlighten me.

Ohhh. I get it.

I can't see the link at the minute but i'll check it later.

It occurs to me using a "complete" studio package like reason could get round the problem. Just use the samples and tools there in and mail each other the file folder. I belive you can bubndle things as well which would allow for the "not sequencing based" majority

You have limited audio editing in reason so you'd have to use a different package but as long as you save it back into the bundled file it'd work fine. You could use all you own kit as well, as long as you recorded it into whatever recording box you use and used the reason sampler for playback in the track.

I might know someone enough to write us an online sequencing program. Or at least tweak their own, already written, programs into a website. We'd have to learn it and the interface would be ugly but it should sound a least ok and be open source. Might be interesting.

You could do that with ableton as well, and recording tweaks to things and watching the knobs move when someone else has recorded tweaks might be kind of satisfying but for the actual jamming I don't know. I've heard *of* it being done but never attended one. I shall make some enquiries as to this also.

It would be frucking ace to get a proper jam going what with all the harps and choral singers and god knows weird different tastes going on in the MuG.

Blimey, your enthusiasm is somewhat splendid! We'd have to bear in mind the varying abilities, technical experience and software available to MuGgers but it's got to be worth pursuing.

Ableton? I found out that the copy I 'obtained' was pony (before I installed it, fortunately) but am highly intrigued by it.

Just say the word

You're definitely right about the packages. It seems harsh to say "ok, you play the to make music with us you need this top end £600 program and to be able to work it also"

The more I think about it using our own software sounds better.

I can do bits of it I know but 'll get onto my friend and see if it's do-able. He owes me one anyway.

Just to kick a few ideas about.

I'd just have a folder specific chat box. Downloadable mini package. MuGs could record into tracks and get help from people online. I wouldn't bother with any complicated synths, or even samplers just a score and a piano roll (with some kind of drag out-able notepad thing) with basic sounds so people can write or transcribe stuff and then save it back to the site and leave it for other people to copy out or play back and record. And a basic cubase style sequencer. I've got a spare box. I'll pre-emptively linux it all up.

I think I have too much time on my hands

Gotta go