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600/Sample Engine/We Like Parties - 2007/01/25 10:36
The Sample Engine is online!
The Sample Engine is for participants and others close to RPM only, not for the general public. In other words, your fans won't hear your half-baked works-in-progress -- only other participants will. To use it, log in to RPM, then click the big blue "Sample Engine" button on the left; then login to the engine itself using that same username and password.
The Sample Engine has two main functions:
1. to allow RPM participants to upload original samples for other participants to freely download for use in their own projects
2. to allow RPM participants to share demos or previews of their projects with other participants for listening only
The two functions are very different, and items uploaded as "Demos" are not meant to be used by other participants; however, there is always risk inherent in uploading files on the web, and the RPM organizers are not responsible for misuse of material.
Likewise, although we are very excited about the sample-sharing function of the site, understand that once you upload a sample for download by others, you are setting it free entirely. Hopefully they'll credit you, and if they make a million bucks with your sample, it would be nice if they gave you a cut -- but they might not. Once you upload it, it's out of your hands.
While no "Demos" should be uploaded prior to the Feb. 1, since people shouldn't be recording anything before then, "Samples" are a different thing entirely: if you have some pre-recorded bits of sound lying around that you want to share, then by all means, you can do so starting now so people can check them out and start thinking.
Use of the Sample Engine is entirely voluntary, of course -- it's just meant to be a tool available to you if you choose.
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A bunch of you have asked about what happens to your music after March 1, who owns your music, what happens next; so, real quick:
a) Your music is your own, to do with as you please. We hope you'll let us stream it in the Jukebox for everyone to hear (see last year's jukebox: http://www.rpmchallenge.com/rpm_player.html), but even that is voluntary.
b) You can darn well bet we want to have a party to celebrate when all this is over! The trick is figuring out the kind of party that you can all enjoy; we're working on that, details to be announced.
c) Oh yeah: also, you'll have made history! Such a diverse and far-flung community of musicians have never come together with such a strong, shared goal before. The possibilities for the music that will come out of this simply boggle the mind. We can't wait to hear what you come up with!
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Parties, Part 2: Kick-off Parties
For those of you within striking distance of RPM HQ, we'll be having a kick-off party on Tuesday, January 30 at 7pm EST downstairs at the Muddy River Smokehouse: 21 Congress St., Portsmouth, NH 03801. This is a chance to meet other participants, compare notes about your plans, scheme, ask questions, and even drink beer (if you swing that way). With a little luck, we'll even have t-shirts -- $5 each. (Available online soon.)
For those of you not within striking distance -- which is a whole lot -- you should also have a party; a gathering, a send-off! If there are other participants near you, give them a shout -- look them up on the map, or sort the list by postal code. Otherwise, just get the band together to hang out for one last night of NOT sweating around the clock for 28 days on the most remarkable album you've ever made.
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What you can do to help, revisited
A few of you have asked what you can do to help -- and the answer is, quite a lot. We really want the whole world to know about RPM -- we want to let as many bands as possible know about signing up, and then we want to let as many civilians as possible know to come and read about your progress, and then listen to your music.
If you all pitched in, we'd have an army. Here's how:
1. E-mail 25 Bands
2. Send Out 25 Press Releases
3. Put Up 10 Posters
4. Blog it!
Download links and detials on these things here:
http://www.rpmchallenge.com/content/blogcategory/259/307/
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Also, if you didn't get this as an e-mail on 1/25/07 -- if you were sitting by your computer and you had a strange telepathic tingling that you felt you should have just received an e-mail from RPM but instead you had nothing, nada, then check your spam or bulk mail folder and see if it's there, as that does sometimes happen. Or if you know someone who didn't get this as an e-mail, you could send THEM a telepathic message...
-- The RPM Deep Sea Sub Base
Post edited by: dave, at: 2007/01/25 09:39
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