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Hi all

This is my latest one "Daddy Knows" which brings up a question to the group ..my reason for uploading it( a 2MB song... BTW...this file area is for the CN fractal Music Forum members and not KVR, just to clear that up)

Over the weekend I purchased the october edition of Computer Music ( based in the UK) It has 2 discs of free software as well as excellent articles, tutorials and news. Better then the magazines over here ( USA) as far as covering those types of applications.

On the CD was a free copy of eJay Dance 2 plus, basically a wave arranger,( like Acid) but comes with over 3000 samples and loops.

I had great fun with this for 2 days and the result is "Daddy Knows", the title which comes from my interpretation of the lady voice sample.
With this program you simply drag over a sample to an arrange window of 16 tracks from a pool of samples , all catagorized( effects, loops, layers) Most of these sounds are very cool synth sounds as well as acoustic ones, but all made so when you drag them into the arranger, its all in tune and all at the same tempo.You can spend hours arranging samples to just try them out and hear what they sound like. As you can see from this MP3, you have a lot of great synth sounds as well as acoustic ones. You would never exhast all the possabilities.

While I made my own decisions on what samples to use, where to put them in the arrangement,dynamics, mix,tempo ect,( and you can get very creative in this) I did not actually play any of the material myself.However the software states that these samples are free and cleared for commercial use. If I distibute this song and make a mint, its MY song!

This brings me to my question. Is this the same thing we are doing with algorithmic applications or loop CD's? Generating, picking what we like, then adding them to a compostion. ? IMHO 'its the same thing! A project I would like to do is to create my own samples of algorithmically gnerated loops ( and I have started and have quite a few) and use these as a basis of the sample pool. Then it would take a different flavour and perhaps be more my own composition. But that does not stop me from using some of the cleared samples as well.

Now: is this method extended composition? or my own songs?

TimC

short answer ...

does it matter ???

slainte rob