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I was under the impression that the original question was simply about how he should name his tracks, not get into the finer points of copyright laws and all that

poop...it's not compiled in yet!

Originally, the meaning of a remix is when you take the original recording and redo the mix. Mix being not only the levels and EQs on the console, but also in which order some parts of the songs are presented, extended, cut short etc. Basically, what the mix engineer does. This is true to this day, but technology has changed so much that you have to factor in sampling and whatnot.

A cover is simply playing the song as it was originally made. You don't need to attempt to sound like the original, but you are keeping the structure as it is. Basically a cover is when you get the sheet music version, and play it. So you can make a guitar cover of a piano song as long as you keep the chord progression and structure the same way (meaning you CAN make an electronic cover of a song.) Tempo is usually irrelevant because sheet music doesn't note tempo precisely down to the beats per minute.

For a lot of music for which we don't have the original recording (like a lot of classical music) we usually call them performances, or interpretation.

For music that you keep the basic original structure and feel but to which you add/remove layers of instrumentations to, we usually refer to those as 'arrangements'

What a lot of people do today however, cutting up a snippet from a song and use it as the hook in another completely different song has been given the name of 'vignette' in a lot of circles, 'mash-up' in others...mostly when more than one sources have been used.

TL;DR: Just credit the original artist and stop caring about this, it's irrelevant

Yeah I don't know why people don't share their source files. Back in the old days of the demoscene it was kind of a point of pride to show off your mad tracking skills I remember people doing all sorts of crazy shit for no other reason than going "look what I did there!," like using pattern jump commands to make patterns run backwards and whatnot. Personally I think it's the sharing of these source files that evolved tracking to where it got.

When I look at my first Klystrack files, there's also a LOT of shitty workarounds in there haha. Things that don't make sense and make me cringe a bit like having to use 3-4 instruments to do something I can now do with a single instrument. While Klystrack works very much like any other trackers, there's also this weird side to it where you have to re-learn a lot of stuff. But overall, I just fucking love this software. It has just the right balance of limitations and freedom. You can make super oldschool stuff with it and you can make it sound huge as all hell if you want.

I use the sample a LOT, but pretty much never to play a straight up sample. I use it as an extra oscillator basically, either to fatten up a sound, or give it a bit of a different texture from the standard oscillators. I use FM pretty much the same way, just to add a touch of texture to some sounds.

Anyways.. maybe we should do a Klystrack collab at some point

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Every CD is carefully manufactured and then placed in my armpits for an entire week. The funky smell is what gives it collector value. In 20 years you'll see those CDs pop up on Ebay as "first generation armpit n00bstar CDs".

@bod & komet
I think it's high time to formalize Klystrack and redo the distro package. A lot of the example songs packaged with it don't play right in the new versions. There's a definite lack of user-friendliness to the package. We should perhaps make a couple of new example songs, and a proper instrument library to get people started with the synth engine. I could continue my tutorials, edit them into some html package or something and include those in. Get a proper webpage setup with nifty little pixelated graphics (ilkke, that's your call...). Find a way to sync pc/mac/linux builds for every new release etc. I have a domain that's paid for, just needs a little hosting and I'm more than willing to use it to spread the klystrack love around.

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