03-31-2009, 11:52 AM
As mentioned before I am currently working on redoing the entire site to bring it up to date function wise and allow a lot more new content to be easily published. While I was on Beatportal not too long ago checking out one of their tutorials someone mentioned in a comment on how they wished there was a community site for production matters.
Soundcloud sorta filled this role with the commenting of waveforms but to me it's still more suited to promoing tracks more than dicussing production due to it missing some features that would facilitate that.
So as I sort out the details of the new MedwayStudios I thought I'd get some feedback on the demand for this sort of thing. Although I'm sure we all get a bit sick of having accounts in social media sites everywhere I do think that a simple but effective profile site for production would be useful.
My idea so far would be the basics, of course your avatar, a little info about yourself etc.. Private messaging and the ability to have 'friend' accounts linked to yours. Beyond that here are a few more features and how they could be used for the purpose of sharing ideas about producing:
# Audio player - essential and although it probably wouldnt have the waveform and commenting that SoundCloud does I still feel giving track times works fine for me and these could be displayed. The question is whether or not some of these tracks would need to be private or would you mind the whole world seeing what you've got going on (for instance with tracks in rough form)
# Comments - the ability ti post similar to the 'wall' or comments in Myspace.
# A feature I think would be really handy would be to list the gear and plugs you are using along with tips for each one as well as gripes you have. I think a lot of time we miss cool little features and shortcuts of programs we've used even for a while and this would be a great way to share those little things that make the production process happen faster. If there's something bugging you about a program or pluging you could list that as well and eventually someone might come around to shed light on it.
A lot of this we do in the forum but I think it's better to have a central repository of all this infomation.
# A list of current releases and links to purchase tracks.
# Some type of shoutbox or realtime comment system for sharing more spur of the moment discoveries, this could be linked to a Twitter account as well.
# Email forwarding of any of the above info as it's published to keep you up to date with what's going on without having to log in each time.
# Ability to upload files to share patches and sounds with ratings. Also share links to other tutorials or cool things you've found. A lot of sites have link directories but a user made one would be even better and more diverse.
These are just some things I've thought of today I'm sure a few more will come. The general idea is to put all our collective info in one place to form a network that can help everyone along their journey of producing a little easier.
Soundcloud sorta filled this role with the commenting of waveforms but to me it's still more suited to promoing tracks more than dicussing production due to it missing some features that would facilitate that.
So as I sort out the details of the new MedwayStudios I thought I'd get some feedback on the demand for this sort of thing. Although I'm sure we all get a bit sick of having accounts in social media sites everywhere I do think that a simple but effective profile site for production would be useful.
My idea so far would be the basics, of course your avatar, a little info about yourself etc.. Private messaging and the ability to have 'friend' accounts linked to yours. Beyond that here are a few more features and how they could be used for the purpose of sharing ideas about producing:
# Audio player - essential and although it probably wouldnt have the waveform and commenting that SoundCloud does I still feel giving track times works fine for me and these could be displayed. The question is whether or not some of these tracks would need to be private or would you mind the whole world seeing what you've got going on (for instance with tracks in rough form)
# Comments - the ability ti post similar to the 'wall' or comments in Myspace.
# A feature I think would be really handy would be to list the gear and plugs you are using along with tips for each one as well as gripes you have. I think a lot of time we miss cool little features and shortcuts of programs we've used even for a while and this would be a great way to share those little things that make the production process happen faster. If there's something bugging you about a program or pluging you could list that as well and eventually someone might come around to shed light on it.
A lot of this we do in the forum but I think it's better to have a central repository of all this infomation.
# A list of current releases and links to purchase tracks.
# Some type of shoutbox or realtime comment system for sharing more spur of the moment discoveries, this could be linked to a Twitter account as well.
# Email forwarding of any of the above info as it's published to keep you up to date with what's going on without having to log in each time.
# Ability to upload files to share patches and sounds with ratings. Also share links to other tutorials or cool things you've found. A lot of sites have link directories but a user made one would be even better and more diverse.
These are just some things I've thought of today I'm sure a few more will come. The general idea is to put all our collective info in one place to form a network that can help everyone along their journey of producing a little easier.
I'm really keen to get this thing going as I always envisioned MedwayStudios as an all encompassing site for dance production and this will take it one step further.
