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So me and my mate have been remixing eachothers real old tunes...

Our old tunes had all FL-stock stuff so all we had to do was send the project, and remix it.


Now we've both been at it about a year / and 6months an found out about samples and VSTs (genuine lol just came out) how can we get it so we can remix eachothers stuff?

I mean I bought Albino3, Absynth4 and he got some Imagine Line stuff so we dont' use the same VST's..I don't have the same samples as him and theres way to many to just send via MSN.


We DO live near eachother so he could come round mine, i'll sit here and we can both remix it but thats not as fun, as their a easier way for us to get it done?

Like, save each pattern as a .wav? Send it that way? Any help would be great! Its our little 'thing' (no homo)

Audio is the safest, and if you have some of the same vst's you can send the patches you use as well.

Short of cloning the two machines, the easiest way is to render everything as audio. Rar it up, and if you're nice put in a little note detailing bpm, track key, ideas, etc.

Fair play, last time I zipped up all the different pattens it was just short on 150mb haha, took us a hour to send it across. cheers for the help anywho

surprised it came in much less than a GB to b honest. but yeah, thats the only way i ever done it.

bounce each track to audio, starting from 1, and then send DVD's back and forth or get a premuim yousendit/sendspace acct.

yeah i'd say export each mixer track as .wav, and send him the .flp file and maybe .midi files.

100mb ain't all that in this day and age!

It is at a capped upload speed of 10kb/s cause Virgin Media thought I was like some pirating god when I was just streaming a play list to a shoutcast server as a WELL high quality for 2 weeks to stress test it.

If you are both using FL, you could also just export as zipped loop packages. This way it will have all of the samples you used and the .flp file in one file. Won't have the VSTs, but you could just render anything that was done in a paid VST as a wav and add it back to the project as an audio clip and it will be in the zip file. Only thing with that is he won't really be able to remix anything created in a VST that he doesn't have very easily aside from just sampling.

A good thing to do is to always save as zip looped packages. This way you're never missing or actually deleting samples and it's easy to backup all your dub source files if you save all the zips to one central location.

Yeah, 100 mb isn't too bad - a rar will make it smaller too. When I do collabs though I only send the important bits, usually in 8 bar sections. I mean the track doesn't revolve around generic parts or things that are used more than once. Plus if I've gotten more than half way through a tune I don't bother sending it, because if I've gotten so much done, what will the other person add?

I'd suggest you be quite brutal in what's worth sending, that way you give some room for the other person to flex their steez.

Like everyones said, just bounce the audio to wav. Maybe it might be worth just sending a cd through the post. Only take a day and saves uploading large amounts.

I hate bouncing stuff down and workin from audio. Always like the original source and chain of effects

Some mixed ideas, I usually only send him the bits he wants to work with anyways.

Thanks for the help and opinions anyways lads, I guess its not the easiest thing to plan out.

If you want to get the filesize down you could maybe encode those wavs to FLAC.