The Power of Microsoft Songsmith

[Blitzzo]

Recently Microsoft released a program called Songsmith which generates backing music when you sing into the microphone. Instead, people have found an alternate, more creative use, by plugging in vocals from classic songs and generating hilarious results.

Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Queen - We Will Rock You
Metallica - Ride the Lightning

And even more creative usage:

Music generated from recent stock charts (among other things)

I actually got hiccups while listening to some of this stuff, it's that funny. Perhaps someone in here could try out Songsmith and see what they can come up with?

 

[Spazzo]

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=YN9pGgg8YlQ&feature=related


...Songsmith set to an Obama speech?

 

[Penopat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZWTfrW3gEo&feature=related&fmt=18

Battery by Metallica.

MUCH more hilarious than Ride the Lightning. Especially the visuals.

 

[blargen]

I listend to the metallica. I listen to them alot and I swear I literaly Rolled On the Floor Laughing. Seariosly. Its like Metallica joins the Teletubbys. LOL

 

[BlueZero4]

So, how do you guys rip vocals from songs? I'm interested in ripping "Shout to the Devil", but I'm not educated in the ways of editing.

Although, I do have Audacity somewhere on this computer of mine...

 

[ZeldaGamer00]

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/download.html (Trial link)
*Walks away whistling*

 

[Arf]

How long until they do Rick Astley?
I bet that by now, it has been done.

 

[ZeldaGamer00]

How long until they do Rick Astley?
I bet that by now, it has been done.

Yup, it has.

 

[Blitzzo]

I actually like this one better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5nTFKSTAxo
Not necessarily on the humorous side, but it's actually kinda catchy.

Yet another:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd2oDClUw20

Also, listen to this one for a while: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go
Then listen to this one and laugh out loud at the first line: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci1K9Zcwvy4

I'd like to see what happens if you give Songsmith some random pitch shifting and/or garbage waves.

 

[Arf]

[03:30] <Arf> somebody should do a duet of Microsoft sam + songsmith

To the batcave!

 

[I'll Begin]

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ypycpKQxXR0
"Roxanne" by The Police - Latin version. :D

 

[Chibs]

Enter Sandman - Metallica.

I think I just died inside a little.

 

[Blitzzo]

Ha! I just tried it out. Shadow Hog suggested I try Still Alive. My first attempt was rubbish because I started a half-measure too early:

http://chaos.foxmage.com/AkuKitsune/StillAliveSongsmith.mp3

The second time I switched to Country and delayed the voice recording by half a measure and it worked much better (though Shadow Hog doesn't seem to think it was quite there yet) Here it is below:

http://chaos.foxmage.com/AkuKitsune/StillAliveSongsmithTake2.mp3

Also, there are weird artifacts from the voice extractor I used. Mainly it made the voices sound robotic - thus the suggestion for Still Alive, since it was sung by a robot in the first place.

 

[Crüsäder]

Oh god, Astley's double-floating head is gonna give me nightmares.
Didn't someone do Wonderwall and Crazy Train?

 

[Naga]

Hey guys, how would I go about extracting vocals from songs?

 

[Boinciel]

Hey guys, how would I go about extracting vocals from songs?

As far as I can tell, one would need not just the song itself but a karaoke version of the song, and then use the difference between the two tracks. I don't know of any programs that would do that, however.

 

[Blitzzo]

Boinciel, I tried that with Sonic R and it didn't work. The waveforms were too different, so instead of canceling themselves out, they sounded tinny.