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"How about tuning the guitar AFTER the recording has been made?"

I totally dig this.

Sorry, but this is going to be incredibly useful to me, and it's a pretty amazing technological leap forward.

I agree with the above statement -

Ethical usage aside, it's pretty amazing what they have been able to do from an engineering standpoint. That being said, I think it's probably going to be abused in the most disgusting ways.

Dontfear:

Out of curiosity, what would you use this for specifically? I'm not railing you, just curious.

Not Crap.

Whether or not it gets abused by engineers/producers, whether or not it is another piece of a crutch that allows talent to be weaker and weaker, it is a pretty amazing tool.

areopagite wrote:"How about tuning the guitar AFTER the recording has been made?"

What an FFT monster this has got to be. I'll bet it'll only run on an 8 core box.

I would imagine there is some sort of adjustable threshold arrangement required to sort out the individual pitches. Fucking with that threshold is where the abuse/creativity is going to arise. If it really works it scares the shite out of me.

OK, imagine a timbre with a high harmonic content. For example a distorted guitar may have all sorts of harmonics and heterodynes that could be actually extracted as an individual pitch adjustable components of a chord.

What about using it on ringy snare, tom or a ride cymbal played on it's bell.

Maybe you could use it to tune the "room tone".

What gawd awful things you could do to samples of doowop, Beethoven's 9th, Simon & Garfunkle or the Weavers.

Listen for this thing in a horror movie coming soon. Blood curdling screams will never be the same.

I'll bet you could break that thing with a bagpipe or Joe Cocker though.

I must say, I think if this thing actually had an asshole, it would be hairless and bleached.

No further comment.

i love how the dude says "meedee." highly annoying.

i think a fun afternoon could certainly be spent yanking this off the internet and trying to stump it.

Sometimes I add keyboard tracks to songs and I’m a very poor piano player; it’d be cool to be able to fix a miss-hit key, assuming I didn’t decide I liked it that way, without having to keep playing until I got it right or to punch in.

I’m sure it’ll be abused, like anything else.

Not crap.

stephensolo wrote:Sometimes I add keyboard tracks to songs and I’m a very poor piano player; it’d be cool to be able to fix a miss-hit key, assuming I didn’t decide I liked it that way, without having to keep playing until I got it right or to punch in.

I’m sure it’ll be abused, like anything else.

Not crap.

shredphones wrote:"meedee."

No?

I saw this yesterday. It's fucking brilliant. Especially from an engineering standpoint.

I don't care about polishing vocal tracks, I like it when singers are off key(anyone said Andy Cohen?). Anyhow, it's amazing and I'm sure it's going to be useful for people who make electronic music and want to fuck up their stuff even more.

Not Crap, not crap at all.