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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: New Music Format -- MULTI-TRACK |
| Date | Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:45:39 -0400 |
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At Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:38:45 Mark wrote:
>Actually, there is a format which I'm still hoping to see someday, and am
>curious if would ever be done (or if anyone would want to do it). That is,
>I want a format which would provide me the music in the original
>multi-track format, so that I could mix the music, and create a CD that
>sounds the way I want it to sound. No more of having people hating the way
>that some producer decided it should be sound.
[snip]
>Would there be a demand for something like this? Would companies ever
>allow it to be done? Someone could come up with a better mix than the
>official CD, which of course the companies wouldn't want to happen. And,
>of course, there are probably artists that wouldn't want that allowed
>either. But it's a sort of dream I've always had, so maybe someday?
It has been done...both Todd Rungren and David Bowie have experimented with
this on releases in the last decade. I think it was considered a gimmick at
the time because music software for mixing (i.e. ProTools, Logic Audio, et
al) was out of reach for the average home user. Cake Walk and Sound Forge
got into the game for the home market, but Bowie and Runt were supplying a
custom software -- which I imagine was what they were actually trying to
sell, as opposed to the music itself.
I would love to be able to do this with my artists but there's a lot of
resistance. The main one is the butchering and bastardizing of the original
songs. Purist fans would probably stay pretty true to the intent of the
songs with preferences to the amount of treble, bass, prominant
instrumentation mixing, stereo vs. mono, etc.
But what happens when some mixmeister decides that the tune needs an
accordian solo or a new vocal provided by the daughter of the next door
neighbor...or it becomes a parody. Even if you protect the software from
pirating by limiting the useage to one specific computer, the results can't
be controlled. You'll have zillions of remixes being uploaded to
peer-to-peer and proliferating beyond the reach of the artist's ability to
recover any income from it.
Personally, I'd love to see this happen. It would be fun trying to collect
all the different remixes of a particular song or album. It might even spur
on sales of the software/album by the artists because people would want to
compete in the remix sweeps....Hell, you could make a contest out of it and
thereby really ramp up the initial sales [I believe Runt made it possible
for people to post THEIR remixes on a forum of some kind....maybe it was
Bowie....don't recall].
But, a few acts I've worked with have denied multi-track remixing for any of
their classic works because of poorly handled remixes by reputable
producers....so convincing them that neophytes should be allowed the
opportunity to reek havoc on their masterworks is going to be tough.
I think we might be able to get former Klaatu man Dee Long to do something
like this....he's software savvy and always on top of technology. I'll run
this by him...
Jaimie Vernon,
President,
Bullseye Records of Canada, Inc.
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
"Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!"
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