Does anyone look at that? I’m still creating tons of songs, but posting them in the Beats forum seems to be a dead end. Little if any feedback, and it’s a poor way to organize a library of songs.
In looking at the Resources section, the one thing that seems to be missing is user feedback on the resource. I think that’s a very important function. I love how it has versions.
What I don’t like about the beatbuddytools.com site, is that 1) you can’t upload your own stuff, 2) you have no idea when anything was updated, 3) its nearly impossible to search.
I’m tempted to make my own resource site, and just post links to it from here.
Bitch, bitch, bitch, it’s hard to please everyone, right?
But seriously, I have at least 50 songs (all with bass) that I haven’t posted.
I posted a resource to show the effects of midi time signatures, and how the bb reacts to it, but it has zero views, and zero downloads. I think i would have downloaded it just to be curious.
Did not realise that was there until today. I think it is in response to someone requesting an area like Beatbuddytools where songs can be uploaded, searched and commented on - the problem is I don’t think many know that it is there or what it is for.
First time in resources to me also …
Stu’s ‘Barker time bomb’ also said download not available … but the dropbox dl’d it.
I’ve been away for over a month ( cycling Iceland ) & wondered what happened to Aashideacon’s posts,
now that you’ve added wav’s to the mix it’s really exiciting
always looked fwd to trying out the bass line tunes ( thanks Stu) …
… now I see Phil is getting the hang of bass lines … that is awesome …
I’m resolved to to take a course on Reason …
I want in on this, but my old brain doesn’t comprende!
Keep up the good work guys …Big fan here
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Instead of posting, I occasionally send songs to Phil, who always finds my mistakes This is why we need comments, and why versioning is important. I know Stu has also said that he has upgraded songs as he has played them. Crowdsourcing this endeavor will get us to a robust library!
Also, I know certain changes are coming that are going to make us all improve certain songs we have! cough500notelimitcough
Maybe we can use the forum for discussion of the resource, if the resource itself doesn’t have comments. As @Phil will tell you, sometimes it takes 8-10 back and forths to get a song correct. Also, I’ve created a few tricks that make older songs which were impossible to play, now easy to play (mostly due to workarounds for the 500 note limit).
By the way, if you have a midi loop that is longer than 500 notes, but half of them are zero velocity ones, I can convert them to note-offs, which will allow them to be used. There is a slight trade off, in that the note will usually sound until another note is played, but most basslines are busy enough that they are constantly playing. I have another program which simply analyzes a midi snippet to count the kinds of notes, or in verbose mode, actually print out everything that’s in the file.
Thanks for this! One question: is there a way to enable comments on a Resource? I’d love to know if there are errors or suggestions for improvement, or general questions.
I’d be willing to go through other’s posts and upload them to the resource section if they aren’t there. My name would be under them, but I would attribute them to the creator.
All this sounds great and I don’t see why another “Column” could be added just for comments on corrections or ideas as well. There seems to be enough room to do this, or have an attached folder for such purposes for comments and such.
Sincerely, Fingerstylepicker.
