Description

This repo provides demo projects for Stargate v1. You may also fork this repo to create your own demo projects repo. If you do, please create an issue in the issue tracker asking us to promote your projects.

Note that Stargate caches your samples, you should not distribute projects unless you have the necessary rights to distribute any samples you used.

Installing

Running make creates a zip file, which the user is expected to unzip to a location on their computer, ideally under the default directory of

# Linux, Mac
~/stargate/projects

# Windows
%%USERPROFILE%%\stargate\projects

Building

Simply run make to create the zip file

Adding projects

Requirements

The project must not contain any samples from sample packs unless the sample pack has a public domain license, or a license that explicity allows redistribution without royalties or attribution. If you need samples with a suitable license, use our sample pack. Unfortunately, most sample packs (commercial or free) do not have solid licensing schemes that account for the use-case of redistributing samples. We do not have the means to validate the licensing on every sample you use, but we will respond to takedown requests if the requestor can prove that they own the copyright to the sample.

Projects must be a reasonable size. You can include a vocal you recorded or otherwise have the rights to distribute, but a song consisting of 24 recorded tracks of audio x 5 minutes each is probably too large and should be pacakged and distributed using other means. You can still reach out to us, we are happy to promote demo projects, even if they add too much size to the main demo projects repo. We will help you find a way to host it, if possible.

Procedure

• Create a project anywhere on your hard drive, such as the default ~/stargate/projects
• Write your song, being mindful that any of the samples you are using will be distributed with the project, and being mindful of the overall size of the project with audio files
• On the DAW "notes" tab, add your artist name, song name, description, license (CC-BY-SA is a good one), a link to any of your pages or websites you want to promote, and maybe some nice ASCII art
• In this repo, create an artist name folder for yourself under the src/ folder.