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NIN Releases Garageband Sources For 3 New Tracks
Kethinov writes "Nine Inch Nails has once again released the sources in Garageband format for three of their tracks from their new album Year Zero. You can also download user-created remixes. Trent Reznor claims that he plans to release the entire album this way."
... for other applications, via torrent on the same page.
BNL (Barenaked Ladies, from Canada) also has a number of remixable songs where you can download songs with the tracks split out.
These cost $2.49 for each song-related set of tracks (all in WAV) but that's more than fair for a bunch of lossless tracks that you can use for whatever. Pretend to be Ed or Steve just by leaving out a track and filling in yourself!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Pardon my ignorance, but what this has to do with Apple?
Well, GarageBand is a Mac-only application written by Apple.
That'd be a good place to start.
I just wasted your mod points! HA!
I assume the parent simply means that these are instrumental and acapella versions of the song.
You didn't have to ASSume anything (proving out the old saying in the process), simply following the link you find this text:
For the first time in Barenaked Ladies history we are making available for download multitracks of our songs. May we introduce "Easy", "Wind It Up", "Bank Job", "Rule the World With Love", "I Can I Will I Do" and "Maybe You're Right" off our upcoming album Barenaked Ladies Are Me. It is our hope that you will remix, re-create, re-edit, re-configure, and realize what you will with these parts in coming up with your own versions. All tracks here are 16 bit 44.1kHz WAV files ready for re-mixing. Cost for all tracks of each song is $2.49. (note: all multitracks are copyrighted material)
and clicking on any song tells you something along these lines:
It is our hope that you will remix, re-create, re-edit, re-configure, and realize what you will with these parts in coming up with your own versions. All 11 tracks (5 of which are stereo - making 16 total) here are in 16 bit 44.1kHz WAV files ready for re-mixing. Cost for all tracks is $2.49 (note: all multitracks are copyrighted material).
These are real multi-tracks, with instruments and vocals split out.
It doesn't get any more re-mixable.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
GarageBand is a Mac-only application bought by Apple.
You need to ``lock'' some tracks by clicking the little lock icon at the left side of the main GarageBand window for each one. Locking renders the track to the hard disk, decreasing CPU usage (but increasing I/O).
Apple is also HOSTING these rather large garageband files for NIN:
_ not.zip
a l_g.zip
o lent_heart.zip
v alism.zip
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/nin/me_im
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/nin/capit
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/nin/my_vi
And a fourth not linked to from the NIN main page:
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/nin/survi
appleguru.org
That's only half-correct. Apple purchased Emagic (makers of Logic, a professional audio editing program) in 2002 and GarageBand was shipped as an Apple product in 2005. So they did purchase the personnel and maybe even some of the code used in GarageBand, but the product itself was first developed and sold by Apple.
In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
GarageBand is a Mac-only application bought by Apple.
If you'd ever used logic 6 (the last version made by emagic before getting bought out by apple, who later produced logic 7 and recycled the sound engine into garageband), you'd know how ridiculous you sounded just now. Granted, apple didn't write the whole app from scratch, but what they did to it was the equivilent of "pimp my app" with a '79 chevy nova. Give some credit where it's due.
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
Trent Reznor is the only true member of NIN. He records everything himself, and only has a band for live shows. That's one thing I love about Reznor; he decided he didn't need a band, and then he decided he didn't even need a record label, he just created his own. Anyone reading this who is in high school and has a garage band with dreams of making it big, should use Trent as an example. He has clearly seen where the music industry is headed for a good fifteen years now, well ahead of everyone else.
Something else to consider regarding the significance of these releases- NiN also launched an ARG called Year Zero as well, and the album is simply just part of the ARG- Reznor said "What you are now starting to experience [,the ARG,] IS 'year zero'. It's not some kind of gimmick to get you to buy a record - it IS the art form... and we're just getting started. Hope you enjoy the ride." Reznor has also called the Year Zero game "a new entertainment form."
;)
So, they also release the individual tracks from the songs of the album, in Garage Band and other formats. Bad ass. But you know what else? This is all part of the game - some of the songs contain hidden pictures, backmasked vocals that lead to website addresses, and there's even morse code on the album.
It is expected that there will be even more hidden goodness available to us now that we can examine the individual tracks. Not only that but holy crap some of these hidden tracks are creepy- the Reaktor instrument in My Violent Heart, for example.
And the heat sensitive label freaked me out, even though I knew it was going to change... that of course revealed another code for the ARG. All the songs seem different after reading up on the ARG. And thats the thing- this album is another concept album, but instead it centers around a fictional future universe rather then being a big metaphor for Trent's own trials and tribulations. Though I'm sure some of those are mixed in too
...unfortunately no one can be told what The Mat^H^H^HGoatse is...they must experience it for themselves...
No, he's talking about "Closer" - the chorus is:
I want to fuck you like an animal
I want to feel you from the inside
I want to fuck you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to God
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Trent has learned to game the system to get his stuff out there. The main releases, those are the ones full of the songs that most people want to hear. ("Dude! That's the animal fucking song!") He is, honestly, one of the last few major artists to understand the single/EP format; most of his singles contained multiple remixes (some far better than the original, some just devolving into noise; I'll let the individual decide whether they appreciate that or not), or a cover song, or leftovers that were cut from the album. But almost every one is worth picking up for the gems of brilliance that shine above and beyond the albums themselves.
For a really good example, check out _Still_. It was sold as a companion disc to the _And All That Could Have Been_ live album, but you can get it by itself. Aside from the semi-acoustic reworkings of several songs, there are some instrumental pieces there that are brilliant.
"Let's say a band can make $20,000 for performing at a 5,000 seat venue as a self-promoted event without record labels getting involved. Now, if said band were signed to a label and had to pay to play (or had to sell even more to get the record company the profits they want), the band may very well have to play a 30,000 seat arena to see the same $20,000."
I've worked with larger and smaller bands over the years.
The problems with physical spaces come with need for roadies, techies, engineers, insurance and everything else.
I've seen a small band go bankrupt for a single concert that goes badly because of poor planning and the idea that they can do things cheaper and make more money. Hell, I've seen a multimillion dollar festival I was once involved with go bankrupt because the board decided not to go with weather insurance. Sure, they would have doubled their profits if things had gone well without it, but the director who signed his name to a personal loan ended up losing his house.
I have to say, my career with the music industry as both a labeled artist as well as a consultant / hired gun, I never found anything unfair. It was all up front to what they will take and what risks they assume for you. Working in tech, I know the year I did as a technical on-call consultant, my company that did nothing but take calls took 50% of my take home...and only later did I find out they were charging a fee to the businesses as well. This is a common complaint in the field. AND I had to be bonded...they took absolutely no risk.
But a band playing to a 5000 large audience or a 30k one? Who cares if they make $20k for both. The first one will require a hell of a lot more work and coordination. I have done work as a production director in the past (its amazing how tech project management skills fit right into this area) and I know others in my field have charged $20k for a single night because of the coordination involved (I've done the bigger stuff under the auspices of charity, so I get a check that I turn right back in, though I've seen others that walk away with these checks and never look back).
The fact is, the band that has to do a 30k large show does a LOT less work than one that does it in front of a 5k one and assume a lot less risk.
The problem with the music industry is that geeks and nerds really just don't understand what is all involved in the real world, yet they pass along suggestions and pat each other on the back for being so insightful about how bad this industry is. It is almost as bad as non-technical managers showing up to a development meeting and telling the programmers that we need XYZ feature and it should be a slam dunk because its obviously easy as they've seen others do it (not realizing they have had a team of 20 and a budget of $10M...where as you have 3 people who are also dealing with desktop support and told that when Bob leaves we don't have the funding to replace him).