Melodyne 2.0 -ARE YOU SERIOUS?

[MarkusColeman]

Originally Posted by engmix

Lets all take a moment to be thankful that this guy is using his genius brain mater to build music programs, and not building weapons of mass destruction. Jeeeeeeezus, I am floored at this technology.

exactly. I never understood the Technology Angst.
100 years ago, automobiles scared the crap out of people too. now they're only polluting the air.

in the end, it's empowering. especially the musician inside of you.

technology is not "evil" per se. we should not turn into an army of Unibomber Zombies.

[TornadoTed]

Absolutely incredible! I am all for using technology if it helps the creative process.

[Led]

Man my Christmas karaoke discs I send around to the family are gonna have some sweet backing tracks this year....

[Greg Curtis]

Great. It looks like now I'll get to spend even more time editing poor musicians, instead of recording great ones.

[JPeters86]

looks cool, amazing what computers can do these days... i still prefer real audio though

[narcoman]

Originally Posted by rcm

This is the first new technology in a decade or so that has made me go "WOW". but its making me want to go crank up an old Neil Young record and remember why I got into music in the first place.

Fair enough! Do remember what it actually is though! Fourier analysis and recursion - it isnt stripping the audio apart as even the demo clearly shows! Try separating a vocal and guitar containing the same notes ! No chance!

Cool stuff though - lots of creative uses.

[narcoman]

Originally Posted by Greg Curtis

Great. It looks like now I'll get to spend even more time editing poor musicians, instead of recording great ones.

Ha! Ive just been through a year of this.... working with a band that is/was great but a year ago where pretty ropey players. Worked them hard, rehearsed them all the time, helped sort songs out, recorded some cracking garage rock! My thanks? They've just signed a great deal and ran off to an A-list producer in Los Angeles! Ah well...!

They threw £11K at me - oooh....ooooh thanks....

[engmix]

Originally Posted by narcoman

Ha! Ive just been through a year of this.... working with a band that is/was great but a year ago where pretty ropey players. Worked them hard, rehearsed them all the time, helped sort songs out, recorded some cracking garage rock! My thanks? They've just signed a great deal and ran off to an A-list producer in Los Angeles! Ah well...!

They threw £11K at me - oooh....ooooh thanks....

Don't sweat it. Bands, labels, and even your own family will do this type of thing all of the time, it's human nature. Money changes everything. By the way, your garage rock vibe, might be the key to their success, and they will all realize that soon enough. Going the major label route for this band could be the death of them, and they will all come back to you looking for the magic you brought to the table, and blow up through the indi. scene....heard of Green Day?

[Sharkus]

I had a Motif ES 8
It did all kinds of tight sequencing etc...
I sold it. Too sterile and boring for me.
Went totally analog guitar drums bass etc...
Now I love music again.

That said, I don't think a product will ever be the death of music.
It still takes a certain amount of time, money and passion to learn the recording equipment first, not to mention the understanding of rhythm, melody, harmony, tempo and key to craft a coherent idea.
I don't doubt that this will cause a huge shift in music production, but I see that as a good thing.
It's probably about what spay paint was to painting at the time it was invented. Pressurized paint in a can with a nozzle... come on, thats gonna be the end for all the brush and can users.

I'm still waiting for my flying car.

[logicll]

wow...It's a great day for those who can't play there instruments correctly!!

It's official NOW ANYBODY CAN BE A MUSICIAN!!

[synthoid]

I predict that when this comes out, people will find that it often introduces very audible artifacts, and that it's not nearly the silver bullet that it looks like from demos of it. There will be lots of source material where the spectral content is either difficult to analyze or else is difficult to pitch-shift without creating something very artificial-sounding.

-synthoid

[author]

Originally Posted by logicll

It's official NOW ANYBODY CAN BE A MUSICIAN!!

Yes!