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Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine

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Re: Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine

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Post by thanatropism »

So I tried to mix two guitar-heavy songs that were bound to be incompatible and the results are kind of okay. Only one has vocals and it comes out way out of tune, but the general development of the songs fits well. It somewhat feels that this has more to do with the predictable sequence of verse/chorus/verse bars in pop music. But eh.

The video is pretty good too:

https://rave.dj/dBgxMMEtR9j-nw

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Edit: Here's an example of an utter failure that illustrates my hypothesis: it mixes a song that has a traditional verse/chorus/verse structure with a techno track that's a monotonic crescendo. The algorithm doesn't know what to do about it (the correct answer, although not leading to great music, would be to use parts from the begginning of the crescendo track so not to overpower the pop song.)

https://rave.dj/-Ls2Nu6CPD0Ssw

Edit 2: Here's an easy one it gets wrong: track 1 has great loopable instrumental grooves that go on each for a few bars before rap vocals kick in. Track 2 is a person talking. It should not be overlapping vocals, it should just highlight the instrumental loops.

https://rave.dj/acvjP2J3oQWF4Q

Re: Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine

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Post by adriancooney »

ehsankia wrote: post #13
paraschopra wrote: post #10

This is how well thought out products look like. - Really simple and intuitive start. I created my first mashup within first 2 minutes and at all times knew exactly what I was doing - Inbuilt virality. People will show off their produced mixes to their friends and on social media. - Actually solves a pain point. How many of us have tried mixing songs and gave up? This gives a sense of creativity while taking care of…

Not only that, but the small things like mashing up the song title and album art truly make this a quality product. Here is my first try: Disclosure - Bang That + The XX - On Hold = Hold That https://rave.dj/1F1p4ZS9ipWmYA

This is fantastic!

Re: Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine

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Post by svantana »

paraschopra wrote: post #10

This is how well thought out products look like. - Really simple and intuitive start. I created my first mashup within first 2 minutes and at all times knew exactly what I was doing - Inbuilt virality. People will show off their produced mixes to their friends and on social media. - Actually solves a pain point. How many of us have tried mixing songs and gave up? This gives a sense of creativity while taking care of…

I agree, but two major issues here:

- licensing will be difficult without a paywall, I'm pretty sure this site is "illegal"

- there is no way to keep tweaking manually to correct bad sounding parts etc, which limits usefulness

As it happens I work on a similar iphone app called Pacemaker, which solves both of these problems (using spotify login and a bunch of edit tools, respectively)

Re: Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine

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Post by nerdbeere »

jjcm wrote: post #11

Pretty interesting. I used to be heavily into the mashup scene, even going so far as to make mashup.fm (another turntable/plug.dj clone). Here's some of my favorite classical mashups alongside the rave.dj version: Thomas the Tank Engine vs Biggie Smalls Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETfiUYij5UE Rave.dj: https://rave.dj/XUBqv8IsZPVZMQ This was the easiest as it's just a vocal track laid onto a beat, but it…

Enya vs. The prodigy

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5knIIyKpSK4

Rave.dj: https://rave.dj/moZFRBY95T53zA

Very pleased with the result.

Re: Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine

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Post by SyneRyder »

If there's any Eurovision geeks here, I tried putting two Eurovision songs together, and now I can't stop watching "I Feed You My Rhythm Inside" by Margaret Berger vs Loïc Nottet. I must have played this 10 times in a row now.

https://rave.dj/_sYhWmI-iHgq_Q

Re: Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine

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Post by maze-le »

LordHeini wrote: post #24

It produces some quite funky technical death metal too. https://rave.dj/ULx2nBaldJ9ocw

This one is great! My grindcore experiment wans't too successful, but it gave me a chuckle anyway.

Nasum & Napalm Death: Face the Children

[0]: https://rave.dj/yjDMS4Pu0a81ZA (Napalm Death: Suffer the Children vs. Nasum: The Masked Face)

Re: Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine

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Post by stephengillie »

SyneRyder wrote: post #48

If there's any Eurovision geeks here, I tried putting two Eurovision songs together, and now I can't stop watching "I Feed You My Rhythm Inside" by Margaret Berger vs Loïc Nottet. I must have played this 10 times in a row now. https://rave.dj/_sYhWmI-iHgq_Q

After watching this, I want to watch another, similar mashup. This site could really use a recommendation/autoplay system, and I could listen for hours. Maybe I've been watching Youtube too much.
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