Un Fuckin Believable! Direct Note Access!

Cyberstar · Post by **Cyberstar** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:39 pm

Abzurd wrote:If it's possible to rearrange chords with this type of technology I wonder how hard it would be to separate the individual instruments from a song or sample.

That's what I'm hoping this leads to in the future.

Zurd

I was thinking along this same thought last week.

Abzurd · Post by **Abzurd** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:40 am

Ajbbklyn your post has me beside myself giddiness.

The possibilities are staggering and the mistakes could be mind blowing.

Especially for folk of the hip hop ilk.

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:52 am

get giddy

http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna_media&L=0

if you watch the first video, the sonicstate one, at about 12 minutes in (I think) he starts playing around with an old Chet Baker track. Of course it's not going to be this easy with every recording - but it's certainly impressive.

what the future holds, who knows?

Abzurd · Post by **Abzurd** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:28 am

Thanks Angstrom.

I watched it and screamed like a little bitch.

This thing could be is the Holy Grail of sample based music production.

Zurd

Grappadura · Post by **Grappadura** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:28 am

Anyway even with the plugin you can do cool stuff right now. You can make people sing whatever tunes you like. If you want polyphony just make a copy of the track with the plugin and set other notes. You can easily create a choir out of just one voice. Its not DNA, but its already exciting.

It uses a different tecnique than a sampler uses to shift notes in height. A sampler will play the source sound faster, thus altering the frequency. If you want a shift in pitch to remain within the original sample length, even though you change the frequency, all other programs will apply classic timestretching.

Timestretching means separating each tune in tiny grains and adding or substracting grains. Melodyne is different, it leaves the formants untouched. Thats why it still sounds like a normal voice even if you shift the pitch by one octave or even more.

I had a lot of fun with a sampled voice of a friend who just said something into the mike without singing. Her voice is now singing as a choir, changing in pitches in ways even pros would have difficulties to achieve.