RPM Challenge

[alanevil]

Are any of you other Live users participating in the RPM Challenge http://rpmchallenge.com? How are you using Live for your project?

I'm doing two completely different projects this year, both using Live for DAW. The first is an instrumental ambient album for my long-time project the Institute for Psychic Reform. The second is an album made with friends of mine of material we used to do back in the mid 1990's as the Psychotronic Jug Band. The best (though woefully inaccurate) description would be swamp boogie rock. We're New Orleanians (two of us now displaced) so there's a heavy dose of that as well.

Live has been instrumental in both cases. For the IFPR record I am building tracks around Live instruments and then adding guitar and other acoustic instruments to the mix. The ability to copy midi files to different points and tracks has made for very enjoyable composition creation.

For the Psychotronic Jug Band album I created a base drum beat and we recorded layers on that, often three or four tracks at a time. Except for the drum programming I've used Live as pretty much a straight multi-track recorder. The ablility to effortlessly copy, morph, and stitch together audio in Live has made so many little, pain in the ass actions a breeze. The ease with which I can convert what amounts to a click track to a full blown live sounding drum track is priceless.

Here are links to pages with what's "finished" for these two albums:
http://www.psychicreform.com/rpm09/
http://www.psychicreform.com/psychotronic/

[amigo]

I am participating with another group of electronic artists and have done since 2007.
It's a great challenge to write a song within a certain time frame and can sometimes bring out the best in you.

I will check out your music later when I get a chance.

[jimbalaya]

I'm participating as well ... It's a sample-based project, and I'm building the full 35 minutes as one piece. I'll go back later and split the single 35 minute track into logical pieces.

I'm about 20 minutes in now, so I still have quite a bit of work to do in a short amount of time.
If you'd like to hear a snippet, I've cut out the Intro and posted it on SoundCloud:
http://soundcloud.com/jimbalaya/intro-32