Monday, February 2, 2009

Find Your Tune with Songsmith

title Have you ever wanted to record a song, but you can’t write any music? The research team at Microsoft has a new program that will allow you to sing any song into your computer and the program will determine what music will sound good behind your voice. It’s a pretty incredible program and some creative people have also found out some more humorous ways to use the program.

Microsoft Songsmith in its own words “generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice.” They designed it for the person that doesn’t know how to write music but still wants to record some songs they may have written. It is free to try and $29 to use forever. It’s a very simple process that goes something like this:

  1. Pick a style
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  2. Choose a tempo
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  3. Sing Your Song
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  4. Modify Advanced Options (Optional)
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  5. Listen to your Masterpiece

Now, some people have found other uses for this software. They’ve taken popular songs and have run them through Songsmith with some very funny results. Here are some of my favorites:





































5 comments:

  1. Wow, this could change Karaoke as we know it...

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  2. It really could. They need to be able to do it in real time though. That would be really cool.

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  3. Will this make my voice better than it already is? Because I kick ass on rock band, Praz can attest to it.

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  4. I don't think it really improves your voice. You should try the program and upload what you come up with. I unfortunately didn't record anything as I have a terrible voice.

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  5. Anything you do 23 hours a day you are bound to be good at.

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