Stumble ThisMany of you probably know of Autotune, which corrects the pitch of a singer's vocals in real time. Melodyne has gone even further now. They found a way to separate the harmonics of each note in a chord, allowing individual notes to be manipulated at will. Simply amazing, even if you're not an audio geek.
via metafilter.
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None of that takes away from how impressive this technology is, however.
(I'm looking at you, DragonForce.)
When are we going to get some software that makes interesting shapes for us to feel- or super realistic programmable smells.
Not really; no more than an artist overdubbing their own tracks to create a fuller sound, and that has been happening for decades.
As cheesemo says, it's the end product that counts. This is simply a tool that will make production easier and cheaper, as less time will be spent perfecting. That's a good thing for independent artists that don't have large amounts of cash to fund their production and end up releasing sub-standard material, or don't release it at all.
Of course, the tools are open to abuse but that is also true of the tools that are around today anyway.
None of that takes away from how impressive this technology, however.
Very much so!
While this is amazing technologically, it encourages production of even more 'formulaic re-mixed' trash (in my opinion) music rather than anything truly original.
Just my opinion of course.
There's good live music and there's bad live music.
I don't see how it matters how the good music gets made, just as long as it's good.
Bad music will be ignored as usual.
I really hope this makes top 15, but I think it's too niche...
I guess I was wrong.
Yeah its neat... but whatever happened to PLAYING the music on an actually instrument, live, with human hands?
I don't have any hands, you insensitive clod!
>> ^cheesemoo:
Bad music will
be ignoredtop the charts as usual.Fixed that for ya.
Cool program though. I agree in that it will require less technical skill if you can just fix it afterwards but for non-improvised music, it's really the way the artist envisioned it that counts more than how well they executed that vision.
*clip* nevermind, saw what I was looking for.
That said, this is far more powerful as an editing tool. In order to use it in a live situation you would need a comparison track, removing much of the opportunity for improvisation. *insert pop musician joke here*
oh, and I suppose it could be mildly useful for music production too
The interface, on the other hand, is awesome!
No but seriously the pop music of today is killing legal music sales, this will only enable ordinary people with just as much talent as the "stars" to manipulate their way to good music without support of BadMusic Inc.
Live performances is what you pay for! Not digitally enhanced tunes of teenagers singing about their boyfriends and how slutty they are.
At least the metal heads have got this right.
/rant
Wowie.
I love technology.
But, it sucks when a pitch-corrected vocalist is sold as a performer. Ashley Simpson on SNL comes to mind. If you need pitch correction in the studio, you had better be offering up some talent besides your voice to an audience.
Nice simple interface. I'm going to look around for tutorials.
Oh, I see that Grinter came to a similar conclusion... good times!
Great, now we'll be enabling even MORE no talent hacks to become rich and famous just because they have nice tits.
Look up some early pink floyd interviews, and you will feel differently about that.
You, can use this to make your old job easier, r use it to make your work even moreso complexed, musical tools, especially this one, can only help the artist express what is inside. maybe you should look up what talent means, you can be pop AND talented! It doesn't happen very often but it does, if it didn't we would all shoot ourselves in the face.
*downloading now
>> ^MarineGunrock:
I really hope this makes top 15, but I think it's too niche...
I guess I was wrong.
REALLY wrong. Good for you, nuke chips.
>> Good for you, nuke chips.
Thanks. 200 is the new 100.