Re: University of West London Bachelor Project

Emanuel,

You and your studies are over my head and career but keep going.

Jack

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On Apr 24, 2018, 6:33 AM, at 6:33 AM, Emanuel Knorr <[email protected]> wrote:
>Dear Audacity-community,
>
> 
>
>My name is Emanuel Knorr and I am a student of the University West
>London. I am living in Germany and since 2017 I am participating in a
>distance learning program of the UWL to become a Bachelor of Arts -
>Music Technology specialist. My group mates and me are now contacting
>you asking for some help for our current assessment. 
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>Our current course is called „Future Media“ and my group mates and me
>are currently working on our last Assessment, which is described like
>this: 
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>„Working in a self-selected group of 3 – 4 members you are required to
>devise, research and analyse a novel product in the area of digital
>entertainment, broadcasting or media distribution. The area that you
>present could be an artefact, an app, a startup, a distribution system,
>an Internet service or a technology, or indeed other relevant topics by
>specific arrangement with your lecturer.“
>
> 
>
>So in a nutshell we are asked to develop a new app that is somehow
>related to our studyies. We came up with the idea of creating a social
>network that is just meant to be used by musicians and producers and
>features useful tools for professional music producing. One of the main
>features is aimed to be an DAW integrated to the social media platform.
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>At the end of the day my group mates and I are just musicians and audio
>engineers, so we do not know too much about software design or computer
>science. In fact the assessment is just a theoretical approach we are
>not asked to hand in a detailed technical analysis but more of a
>pragmatic approach that is somehow inventive and useful in the
>professional music industry. But part of our assessment is to do some
>research on these topics and also to find out, how much it would
>approximately cost to hire a team of software developers to put our
>concept into praxis. 
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>And at this point your DAW grabbed our attention since it is a high
>quality open source software that satisfies all our needs and even
>more. 
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>To make our concept more clear here is the introduction to our work:
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>„Pro-cial media is aiming to connect social media with professional
>music producing. 
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>Facebook and co are designed for general use. And even though they are
>not specifically designed for musical purposes, they are massively used
>by the music industry. But what would happen if there would be a social
>media platform intentionally designed for professionals of the music
>industry? 
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>This is where Pro-cial gets interesting. Its aim is to connect the
>communication and socializing system of social media with useful tools
>for musicians and producers.
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>Though music producing is an individual process there are common
>working methods established today, that are generally used by most
>musicians and producers out there. Pro-cial media is aiming to
>integrate common tools for producing into the platform. Details will be
>explained throughout this work, but the most important features are the
>online DAW and the integrated job market for musicians and producers. „
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>Let me explain this a little. 
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>The DAW is supposed to offer basic functions like e.g.:
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>Audio/Midi recording/editing (upload -able)
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>Use of basic Plug-In´s like EQ, Compressor, Reverb, Delay etc. (online)
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>Paning, Volume adjustment, track muting/soloing (online) 
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>In this case, online means that these thing shell be adjustable by
>anyone being part of the online-session in realtime. A session should
>be including up to 5 members that can communicate via voice chat while
>working on the session. 
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>Uploadable means that the recording process takes place offline and
>that the file can be uploaded to the session afterwards. Realtime
>recording would probably not be possible using the online DAW. The
>uploader can also choose between different file formats. If the session
>is just a songwriting session, lossy audio formats such as Vorbis can
>be used, If the session also priors mixing then WAVE can be used. 
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>I could probably talk endlessly about the concept but I hope that the
>idea is clear now. 
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>Anyway, since your DAW is a open source software it should be possible
>to shrink it functions down to our needs, also to ensure better
>performance online. (I hope I got the meaning of open source right)
>
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>At this point we are working on the concept from a musicians/producers
>point of view. But we do not know, if our approach is somehow feasible.
>Also, we can not think of a budget to hire the needed labour and rent
>servers for using the modified DAW. 
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>We would be really thankful if you, as experts, could give as a (short)
>comment on our concept including your personal opinion. Also some
>rough, estimated numbers on budget would be very useful for the
>assessment. At this point I also want to add that our work is just a
>theoretical approach and that we are currently not planning to really
>launch a project like this. But if we would really send a serious
>request to work on this project, would you maybe even be interested to
>cooperate with us? 
>
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>I want to thank you in advance just for reading this mail and even more
>if you would send us some answers. As a young team of ambitious
>students any input from your side would be really helpful in the end. 
>
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>Thank you for your time. We hope to hear from you soon.
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>Best,
>
> 
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>Emanuel Knorr
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>PS: Please respond to [email protected] with the subject: Online DAW
>project - Audacity
>
>Thank you so much in advance!
>
>
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