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I want an Android app that will autotune my voice as a microphone so I sing quietly into it and midi out is sent autotuned realtime voice.
I want an Android app that will autotune my voice as a microphone so I sing quietly into it and midi out is sent autotuned realtime voice.
I want an Android app that will autotune my voice as a microphone so I sing quietly into it and midi out is sent autotuned realtime voice.
That's not how MIDI works. For the most part, it just carries Note On / Note Off / Velocity messages. There's provision for system-defined data. But MIDI's bandwidth, if I remember correctly, is only 31kbps, so it's not enough to carry sampled audio with any fidelity.
From the article: "There were other consequences from the adoption of Auto-Tune. Hildebrand tells the story of a music producer who jokes that once he used to look for good singers, now . . . it’s pretty faces." This is the reason that a lot of recent popular commercial music is crap to my ears. A lot of the real talent is hidden by "cosmetic imperfections" and isn't suited for the mass marketing machine that desires…
The world is changing. Technology is making it easier for talented artists to make a living outside the traditional confines of the industry, even producing and distributing music themselves. The industry has fallen back to relying on the sorts of "media phenomenon" type artists (face, lifestyle, music, in that order) who get the greatest boost from what the industry can provide and are thus the most dependent on that industry.
Someone with solid pipes and solid musical skills will find it easier to DIY their tours, albums, etc. and make a decent living while in complete control of their music. Someone who's just a face and an approximation of a singing voice who requires autotune, requires others to write their songs, requires a backup band, etc. that person is going to be welded to their producers like nobody's business. And their producers are going to use every tool at their disposal to ride them for everything their worth (publicity blitz, etc.) It doesn't help that modern broadcast radio is feckless and moribund.
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I do too, when I'm speaking aloud. In my experience, though, when writing, the actual degree is listed(PhD, MD, EdD, JD, DDS, etc.), rather than the more generic "doctor". edit: Just checked; the AP and Reuters style guides both seem to recommond only using Dr for Medical Doctors. That's probably where my memory comes from. http://www.sandiego.edu/web/pdf/brief_ap_style.pdf http://handbook.reuters.com/index.php/D#doc…
My mistake, apologies. PhD would have made more sense. I thought the guy's background was interesting. It shows the utility of software/computing for solving such diverse problems as oil exploration and poor pitch using similar techniques. I find that amazing.
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That's not how MIDI works. For the most part, it just carries Note On / Note Off / Velocity messages. There's provision for system-defined data. But MIDI's bandwidth, if I remember correctly, is only 31kbps, so it's not enough to carry sampled audio with any fidelity.
It would be ok for a 2 second delay. I want to sound like Darth vader.
MIDI's primary functions include communicating event messages about musical notation, pitch, velocity, control signals for parameters (such as volume, vibrato, panning, cues, and clock signals (to set the tempo)) between two devices in order to complete a signal chain and produce audible sound from a sound source.
From the article: "There were other consequences from the adoption of Auto-Tune. Hildebrand tells the story of a music producer who jokes that once he used to look for good singers, now . . . it’s pretty faces." This is the reason that a lot of recent popular commercial music is crap to my ears. A lot of the real talent is hidden by "cosmetic imperfections" and isn't suited for the mass marketing machine that desires…
This has been talked and written about time and again, but I also see appearance playing such a role in many work environments. I wonder to what extent the former may be reinforcing the latter.
I see similar selection bias in the popular music industry. Again, top talent may escape it (but have plenty of professionals around for makeup and whatnot), but below that level, looks are king or queen.
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That's not how MIDI works. For the most part, it just carries Note On / Note Off / Velocity messages. There's provision for system-defined data. But MIDI's bandwidth, if I remember correctly, is only 31kbps, so it's not enough to carry sampled audio with any fidelity.
It would be ok for a 2 second delay. I want to sound like Darth vader.