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After the previous beat battle on the forum, I came across a site with a selection of sound effects and wondered if anyone would be up for a small song creation challenge again?

I know I'm breaking protocol here and the winner of the last challenge was to be the one to specify the next challenge, but hey...

The source sounds are here: http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php

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I've no idea whether there's any copyright on the sounds, but as it's all not for profit and just for fun, should be ok, right?

Proposal:
- use only the Toshiba hard drive sounds
- use only Live's built-in effects, no external plugs/samples/synths
- song length max 2 minutes

Whaddyareckon?

Well I had an idea already in the works for the next challenge, but we could always use that sample if you want.

I agreed with the smaller time limit suggestion, it will be 30 seconds or 45 seconds, but syncronized with video.
I'm almost done editing the little video.

As last time's winner, you get to decide! I just came across those samples and thought they were too interesting to pass up.

omg lol i have a dead hard drive on a shelf that i have been meaning to make a song out of hehe. how random lol

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep it in mind.

I'll keep you guys posted for the next challenge, I just wanted to give everybody a few weekends to work on their own music before launching a new challenge

It's time to start up Beat Battle #2.

80, are those samples still available? I have no problem with your rules.

I realize that you were waiting for the previous winner to start battle #2, but that was over a month ago. I think you should start the new thread and lets get this party started right.