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Songsmith - I'M SINGING WITH MY LAPTOP
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I can only imagine this thread consisting of empty posts as people struggle to think of anything to say. I can only hope that they made it intentional bad to make it 'viral' but I can't see how that helps them.
Also, is it just me or does there seem something so incredibly old fashioned and crazy to think that something like Songsmith might come in box. Like back in the old days of amiga games in massive card board boxes.
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I can only imagine this thread consisting of empty posts as people struggle to think of anything to say. I can only hope that they made it intentional bad to make it 'viral' but I can't see how that helps them.
Also, is it just me or does there seem something so incredibly old fashioned and crazy to think that something like Songsmith might come in box. Like back in the old days of amiga games in massive card board boxes.
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the actual worst
I don't get it.
Because that is HILARIOUS
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Also, everyone in this video is highly punchable. I wonder if the license agreement means that users are also the owners of the song...like the promotional video heavilly implease.
I'm sure I saw a video for this a while back under a different name, did Microsoft acquire something at an early stage, then develop it?
Yes. Unfortunately.
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Microsoft could have made this, but even they would have seen sense before they bought it.
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And all the songs it makes sound pretty much the same.
Basically it's a keyboard background fill only instead of pushing the keys yourself, it's done by a voice.
I'm so shaken from watching the video I can't tell anymore.
My entire understanding of humanity has been shaken.
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Glow in the dark stuff needs light so that it can glow when its dark. If your towels are kept in a closet, and you go to get one at night, it ain't gonna glow. Unless you left a light on, in which case you could see it anyway.
The pitch correction one was pretty funny, because matching chords to a badly off-key voice could yield results of the most hilarious kind.
Imagine you have one of those closets with a pressure switch on the hinge, except the moron electrician wired it backwards. How would you find your towels then, motherfucker?! Huh?
GLOW IN THE DARK.
let in the light during the day to charge up your GLOW TOWELS
Let's see what it does then.
Or go twelve-tone on its ass. Do metric modulation shit too.
Any song in history can be characterized by its exact degree of Happiness, Jazzieness, or mixture of both.
Got anything happy instead?
The greatest thing.
Even Deepcrow.
I wonder how nicely it does match the voice though, because it's not like they altered the music in that ad to match the voice perfectly or anything.
I can see it becoming quite a fad..
I'm still downloading the demo (stupid Microsoft servers), but my guess would be that it figures out what pitch you're trying to sing, creates an accompaniment for it, and then tweaks your recorded voice until its in tune.
I'm still downloading the demo (stupid Microsoft servers), but my guess would be that it figures out what pitch you're trying to sing, creates an accompaniment for it, and then tweaks your recorded voice until its in tune.
It's actually a really clever concept. Pitch-matching a solo line isn't difficult (see: Karaoke Revolution/Rock Band/GH:WT), and if it does it then altering the pitch of a vocal line is easy (see: GarageBand). It should be very easy to look at all of the notes that make up a song and determine the key (plus a little extra work to figure out if it's the relative major or minor), and once you have a key it's easy to come up with a list of chord choices for any given note. The only hard part becomes finding the best-sounding progression of chords.
The general work behind it as far as I can tell really isn't that complicated, and even it wouldn't be that hard to, if someone is consistently off-key, fix the entire structure to be where they are.
I mean, I've done this a few times, most of the time just when I'm making a joke with a quick+dirty song that I'm playing, and once for a performance because apparently giving your accompanist an incorrectly written vocal line with no chord structure passes as getting him the music now a days.
But I mean, pitch recognition isn't that hard, and determining intonation problems isn't that hard, I think as long as someone can in general hold a pitch it won't really encounter any problems.
I made it all the way and now I want my time back :_(
Oh hell I didn't even think about that, yeah instead of retuning the chords, they could just include some autotune
Also, finding the best-sounding progression isn't what it's doing, it's going through tonal paradigms that fit with the notes.
Notice that everything in that video is I-IV-V-I or I-ii-V-I or some really simple tonal paradigm. At one point there's an ascending 4th sequence even.
It's not some complex thing that it's doing, it's finding the notes, and if it fits in the chord, then use that chord, with probably weights given to certain chords, based on where they're coming from. Chord structures in such a simple way are so structured.
As a human, this program makes me laugh so hard. So hard.
Icemopper, it should make you laugh as a musician also.
What song should I make?