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Acquiring Music Bit By Bit

A new way to buy and sell music.

This is a novel way to approach buying or selling new music; instead of buying or selling the finished product, you can get the component parts that make it up. The drums, beats, and all the little building blocks that together form that great track you’ve been playing endlessly on repeat. It all centers around something called Scratchpacks. In the words of the founders of Itchy Clips, Stewart Walker and Michel Morin, these are "an 8×5 grid of audio clips in Ableton Live's “session view” screen, but may also include Sampler Instruments, automation events, or even Max4Live-based custom instruments. Scratchpacks can be configured as studio tools, or ready-to-rock in a live show."

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We’ve done a similar thing for our remix contest, open to all, with the pop panel songs from our New York and London events. We’ve supplied you with the stems for each, so go have a listen to the songs, then download the parts, remix them, and submit your mix.

[via Crunch Gear]