Klonk Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:50:55 -0000 veschprigt mroktar "Daniel B" <danielb@w2s.net> [re: Re: [Yello] Yello - Bostich remix wav]:
timing wise any producer with a decent bit of software kit can get around the mp3 timing issue by importing as an audio track, then using whichever software(acid, fl studio, logic, etc) you use and putting it in place by hand, may take a bit of fiddling about but I got mine to work at 118 BPM and by sliding it a few bars into place first.
Strictly speaking, I don't know of any "professional" remixing that's done with compressed sources. Everything gets decompressed, for it is only with 'raw' audio bits that the greatest amount of control & the least amount of latency can be accomplished. Working with compressed audio of any kind is adding an additional layer of I/O to your system, where every additional CPU cycle counts towards underruns. Performance is key with this sort of work, and software. And so, again, it is indeed completely unprofessional to provide only compressed audio. I concur with Glenn: This is gimmick. This is marketing. This is fluff. It's not worth the effort - to go to all the creative trouble just to, what? Win a CD and have to surrender all rights to my work? No *real* remixer's going to touch it, and no hopeful's going to get Jack Shazbat but reamed by megacorporate music. All that said, they DO provide at least 320kbps mp3s - at least there's some quality there for the decompressing - I've seen 128kbps mp3s provided elsewhere - even low-q WMAs once - the very height of comedy! Or the very height of a great opportunity, according so _somm_ on this list. --gcr