A friend of mine asked me how easy it is to find live musicians to collab with on BotB. But so far, I'm not sure if there's a practical way to find out who plays what. Let me know if there is.

But if there isn't, that's what this thread is for (and more).

If you are interested in collabing, what instruments can you play?

Even if you can't play a live instrument, what else can you do?

Favorite formats to collab with?

Are you very interested in collabing or it depends?

actually, i could see this being a feature request type of thing. like if you want to collab on entries or something, you can put a collab status on your profile or perhaps a little thing showing what formats you'd want to collab on, per see.

anyway, collab status.

can play:
1. trumpet
2. keys (kinda, inquire for details)

fave formats:
1. gb/lsdj
2. nsf, or anything which you can do in famitracker or its forks
3. s3xmod or any of the tinymods

formats i'd like to try out/get more experience with:
1. doom
2. smw
3. amigamod

interest status:
would totally be down for collabs. a little busy with finals these days but totally chill over the summer

hullo. woot woot

heres what i can play with minimum fluency
flute voice keys

heres what else i can do
compose arrange

heres my favourite formats
wildchip/fakebit MUSESCORE

heres my interest in collabs
depends on schedule! but leaning more towards YES

I was trying to find the thread where roz listed all of the instrumentalists but it turns out it was a discord thread and those are practically invisible. I'm gonna repost the final list here because it's technically public information? (also this list is from mid 2023 so keep that in mind).

VOX
sleeparrow
roz
kinkinkijkin
lumby

KEYS
wyngwyrm
roz
mioh
beej

GUITAR
haberchuck
roz (acoustic)
wyngwyrm
kilowatt64 (acoustic)
sleeparrow (acoustic, electric)
beej (electric)
MemoryCanyon

BASS
haberchuck
roz
wyngwyrm
sleeparrow
kinkinkijkin (fretless included)
beej
lumby (acoustic, u-bass)
MemoryCanyon

DRUMS
ASIKWUSpulse

MISC
wyngwyrm (kalimba, otamatone)
roz (kalimba, ukulele, kazoo, stylophone)
Enderjed (cannon)
kilowatt64 (ukulele)
kinkinkijkin (improvised percussion!)
mioh (flute, ocarina, danso)
HamMan (sax)

though likely not up-to-date particularly, there was some planning in this regard on the battle of the bands of botb battle thread

edit: oh yeah it was compiled into the discord thread blower just reposted

hello i'm roz i live in northwest england, i'm very handsome & kissable. i sing and play acoustic & electric guitar and piano a decent amount. also a little bit of bass. plus a miscellaneous collection including a few toy/novelty instruments. i might be able to play for you if your song's not too hard.

warning!! currently dealing with some difficulties studying so i can't start any collabs right now, but this could still be useful info to know regardless

i'm generally open to collabs if i feel like both me and the person/people i'm collabing with have styles that could work well together or make for something interesting
i don't have instruments on me, so i can only do sequencing or minimal (important, i'm not a skilled performer) live recording using my midi controller
i think it's no mystery that i specialize in ambient stuff, not much else to explain there apart from suggesting listening to what i've made
with formats i'm not too flexible. it really depends on what i feel like doing - allgear is obviously doable, i can also do s3xmodit/mptm/mod*k (for s3xmodit and mod*k - .it format only. sorry to those who prefer the other formats). another option that is really unpopular but could make for something cool like the collab between dami and kleeder would be bytebeat - i'm pretty comfortable with coding stuff for it, so if you feel like you wanna write some music for some cool custom player then sure, let's go for it! (i'd assume it's obvious but i'm not restricted to ambient in that particular case - i can write pretty much any player for that, as long as it's not too complicated)

I can scream and I can play electric guitar in heavy (ie; metal, alt rock) styles

i can play the bass guitar pretty well. i also play a bit of electric guitar, harmonica and accordion, although im worse at those by a significant amount, so im more limited in range with what i can do with those. i can also sing a bit and am absolutely down to get more practice in by singing on ppl's stuff! im also open to try any format. personally i find it much easier to tackle new formats if im making something with someone else!

I'm pretty good at composing in general, but I'm especially good at bass lines, drum patterns, and interesting chord progressions.

I'm also a decent illustrator and in the eyes of some a very competent writer.

I'm most comfortable with famitracker, openmpt, Mario paint composer, and reaper.

My main instruments are keys and bass, but the keys are my best by far

Oh right and I'm a classically trained baritone so I'm pretty good at singing too

ooooh this is a coool thread! I'd love to try and get more into collabs this year when time allows. I'll list my status below if anyone wants to get in touch or hs fun ideas for future comps or general music making!

can play:
1. Guitar (electric/acoustic). My Main
2. I dabble on Bass, Mandolin, Banjo too
3. Gameboys

fave formats:
1. gb/lsdj
2. DAW/ALLGear/Fakebit

formats i'd like to try out/get more experience with:
1. SNES Stuff
2. M8 tracker

hello, ive been playing drums for a long time, went to jazz school for it, can help out recording live drums if you ever need :)

I'm down for collabs until the 19th. Hit me up for:

playing:

1.bass
2.drums
3.LSDJ live
4.Yamaha SHS-10 keytar

formats:
1.SNES
2.furnace
3.DAW/allgear/Fakebit
4. S3xmodit (.it only)

collabzzz

1. I can play piano well but can't read sheet music well. I mostly just go off learning how it sounds. I own a acoustic guitar and bass but I can't play them anywhere as well, if simple stuff is needed though it'll probably suffice.

2. Generally I'm good at making synths, good at writing solos, and working with weird rhythmic stuff.

3. JummBox. I use Ultrabox for all my standard stuff, been using it for 5 years, I know it like the back of my hand. I'm happy to help with literally any JummBox or help with using it. Unfortunately it's my speciality. Allgear/FakeBit/Wildchip/Remix is also my kinda shit.

4. I am fairly interested, I generally have the time to help out or write whatevers needed all I ask is to be communicative when collabing.

Not somethin I've done too much but turns out it's pretty fun, as far as tracking goes I'm pretty much willing to do
.mod
.xm
lsdj
maxYMiser
(maybe) houstontracker II? >:]

I could try recording some guitar or keys for you if you would like... I pretty much have my casiotone at the moment but I think I could conceivably get piano access as well... I'm a "very ok" reader and of course I can come up with things