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Microsoft Songsmith: Remaking classics!
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Author:  Saerdon [ 23 Jan 2009, 11:16 ]
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First of all, let's introduce Songsmith:
Wikipedia wrote:Microsoft Songsmith is a Music Composition Software for Microsoft Windows, launched in early 2009. Songsmith immediately generates a musical accompaniment after a voice is recorded. The user can choose different styles of music genres either Pop, R&B, Hiphop, Rock, Jazz, Reggae, or the like and change the tempo of the song. Songsmith has a feature to change the properties of the song which is either to make it joyful, sad, jazzy, and so on.

The software, formerly called MySong, was developed by Microsoft researchers Dan Morris and Sumit Basu, based on a 2008 research project by a University of Washington student, Ian Simon. It is the second commercial project from Microsoft's Microsoft Research, after AutoCollage. Morris and Basu starred in an infomercial that became a viral video due to being unintentionally bad.

The limitations of the software, and the misinterpretations of vocal melody without a backing track has led to a wave of demonstrations, wherein isolated original vocal tracks of well-known songs are run through Songsmith, resulting in grossly mismatched chord sequences.
Here is the commercial:
Author:  Saerdon [ 23 Jan 2009, 11:29 ]
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And here are some classics remade! Improvement? You decide.

Metallica - Battery


Oasis - Wonderwall
Author:  Saerdon [ 23 Jan 2009, 11:34 ]
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Survivor - Eye of the Tiger


Billy Idol - White Wedding


Rush - Tom Sawyer
Author:  Hedning [ 23 Jan 2009, 12:14 ]
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Well Oasis and Metallica was indeed improvements :tup:
Author:  Renzuken [ 23 Jan 2009, 15:34 ]
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Oasis has been my fav band for many years but that remix wasnt my cup of tea
Author:  Luria [ 23 Jan 2009, 15:36 ]
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White Wedding fits perfect to the video!! :D
Author:  ittemard [ 30 Jan 2009, 16:01 ]
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LOL White wedding isnt songsmith

Its a cover by HillBilly Idol


......

I'll get my coat

itte
Author:  Saerdon [ 30 Jan 2009, 16:12 ]
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ittemard wrote:Its a cover by HillBilly Idol
You did not just admit to knowing that!
Author:  Saerdon [ 28 May 2009, 13:26 ]
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Thread necromancy. time for some cha cha!
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