Microsoft Research releases Songsmith - Boogie On!
It's my second post, and it's not about SQL. If there's one thing I love more than SQL (excluding beer, chocolate, vacations etc), it's music. I'm a bit of a closet musician (hack?) and I'm really excited by a new application from Microsoft Research. It's called Songsmith and it's a fantastic tool for those who want to create songs.
Just sing a melody and Songsmith will create a chord progression that fits with your tune and then generate an arrangement. That's impressive. I remember a time when it was a hard enough to do a reasonable job of pitch-to-midi conversion. As far as I know it's almost unique in what it does.
You can see from the screenshot that it's easy to play with the song by adjusting the 'Happy' and 'Jazzy' sliders. If you want to be more involved you can go right ahead and tweak the chords yourself. There are also around 30 styles to choose from. This is gonna be fun.
I won't bore you with a review. Music is for playing and listening. You should be trying this app, not reading my blog.
Listen to me now, hear me later, it doesn't matter. Do yourself a favour and download the demo now!
Microsoft Research: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/
Songsmith: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/index.html
