I’m wondering if those submitting samples might be asked the key? For a mixed piece, a couple of plonks on the keyboard to find the pitch will help figure it out.

But for isolated vocals and out of context music parts, I imagine it must be quite a chore figuring out what they sung it in. I usually remember to declare the key on my samples, but it would be good to be reminded, so that if I know, I’ll say.

well, I used to have a rationale for why we don’t it but I can’t remember lol.

Considering we have several 1000 now I think it would be useful for anyone to mark a sample with a key considering that many folks have no idea what key their own samples are in….

I’ll have to think about the best way to do that…

yeah, it’s been discussed before, and i think victor’s rightful reasoning was he didn’t want to scare off anyone from submitting something just because they might not know this info.

for someone like me, it’s not a deal breaker if that info isn’t there, as i can figure it out if the arrangement is pretty simple or standard. but i will say that folks that do include this info move to the top of my list of possibilities. same with a bpm tag.

the way i look at it, i’ve already got my work cut out for me so the more information i have to begin with, the more inclined i am to start something.

so yes AB, i heartily endorse your idea and suggestion. and certainly having a searchable field to enter this info when submitting would be helpful, similar to the bpm field. it need not be a required field, but being able to search samples by key would be cool.

I agree on the bpm (especially on material with no clear rhythmic elements), but that’s already there. I can see that the key might be useful for some (most?) people. I would probably ignore it, because most of the time I have no clue what key my music/samples are in or what people mean when they mention the key of their stuff. I do mention the time signature though, except for Blind Date, because that would be too much work…

Yes Yes Yes, please ask people, any people, for as much info as possible, or allow a space to plug it in if you are not the originator of the sample. It takes me forever to plonk anything out and I’m never confident I got it right. It’s kept me away from doing lots of stuff I’d like to try for fear of being cited for infraction of the many rules of remixing safety.

So yes, supply any and all information you can and help make the music more accessible for remixing to all. Thanks in advance :-).