YourSpins – ist ein nett anmutendes sozial network, welches sich dem remixen gewidmet.
What is YourSpins?
YourSpins is a new kind of music community for fans who want to immerse themselves in world of remixes. Within YourSpins, you'll be able to share your mixes of top songs with others, rate and comment on other mixes - and chat, mail and IM other people too. Plus you can make your own unique ringtones to be sent to your phone. Each user gets their own homepage, with all their mixes and ringtones listed. Soon, we'll introduce blogs for each user, but for now, all mixes can be exported to your own blog by pressing 'Blog this mix' on the mixpage.
Is it legal?
Yes - it's all legal. The copyright of the remix remains with the artist, but you have the right to remix it and host it on YourSpins or your own website/blog.
How does it work?
The artists provides the 'creative master' - the .di file. The .di file contains the song, divided into parts (e.g. intro, verse, chorus, break etc.). Each part has a number of channels and each channel contains extra material as supplied by the artist. This means that each part of the song could have, for instance, 4 basslines, 5 drum tracks and 7 basslines. The user can manually manipulate the song (using one of our free players) as it is playing to create their own remix of the track, or they can press the 'improvise' button to get a new version created using our special algorithms. Further description of how the players work are available in their own application help files. Once you are happy with the mix, it can be saved to your own page on YourSpins. N.B. saving to website is only activated with the online players at the moment
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diMaker is the authoring software which allows artists to create tracks in the .di format. diMaker version 1.2 beta works in a similar way to most sound editing software.
It is designed to sit alongside standard tools like Logic, Cubase and ProTools rather than be a replacement for them. The authoring tool allows an artist, producer or remixer to add in extra content to a track (e.g., alternative drum lines, alternative guitar lines and alternative vocal lines), and it is from this extra content that all the possibilities of creating new versions of the track arise.
