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RaveDJ – AI Music Mashup Maker
- ZeroCool2u 5y agoThere has been past discussion of RaveDJ, but it has improved significantly since then. In college, I would frequent the Mashups room on turntable.fm and use it as background music for studying, so I was pretty excited to see this. I spent more time than I'd care to admit when I found it creating new mashups and also comparing/contrasting them to some of my favorite human created mashups. Here's an example of one I actually enjoyed. (Note: Ads will autoplay prior to playback) https://rave.dj/G7AS9HjKvBK6Nw https://rave.dj/G7AS9HjKvBK6Nw If you'd like to compare and contrast with some mashups created by humans, I'd encourage you to check out The White Panda, Super Mash Bros, 5 & A Dime, 3LAU, and Kapslap. Fair warning, a lot of this material may only be available on YouTube or SoundCloud. Finally, I know some of the people that created RaveDJ are on HN and if they happen to see this, a technical write-up of how RaveDJ works would be of great interest to me, and others I'm sure, if you have time.
- dejawu 5y agoIf you want more (man-made) mashups, I've been maintaining a list of personal favorites here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dr3iKHVFYGeddLuPfhrmVKj_FcWC8UbHYfGoGy42n-Q/edit?usp=drivesdk https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dr3iKHVFYGeddLuPfhrm...
- not1ofU 5y agoDo you have a shared youtube playlist?, google docs is a great way to harvest creds and other nefarious things.
- fragmede 5y agoJust open the doc in incognito mode.
- iamthemonster 5y agoI'm still traumatised, thrilled, damaged and very excited by this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP0mVv0OsCA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP0mVv0OsCA which you described as "I once played this for my friend and she forced me to turn it off because her heart was racing like she was having a panic attack"
- core-e 5y agoDon't forget Girl Talk and The Legion of Doom. Also don't forget the greatest mashup of all time, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43vGywjbuCU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43vGywjbuCU
- not1ofU 5y agoI submit these for your consideration for greatest mashup of all time, which one though? Marvin Gaye vs. The Pixies - Get It On My Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLrzo8MT2VQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLrzo8MT2VQ Marvin Gaye vs. The Verve: Ain't That Perculiar / Bitter Sweet Symphony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ-YXgoIs8k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ-YXgoIs8k Classical Music Mashup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DayjwRDcs44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DayjwRDcs44 Jefferson Airplane vs. Fatboy Slim - Somebody To Praise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBtI_sUuL58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBtI_sUuL58
- singingfish 5y agoTechnically I think this is the greatest mashup of all time, although it is mashing up preacher and famous tune rather than two separate tunes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdXek5d2ocw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdXek5d2ocw
- not1ofU 5y agoFantastic, saved.
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- serverholic 5y agoThis is just cringy.
- dang 5y ago"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines a ton lately. That's not good and if you keep it up we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so would you please review the rules and stick to them? Here's the basic idea: if you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully; if not, please don't comment until you do.
- serverholic 5y agoYou know what? Just fucking ban me then. Between getting flagged because I voiced an unpopular opinion and getting flagged because I didn't memorize your 15 fucking rules I'm done with this place.
- eligg 5y agothis is dope
- WrtCdEvrydy 5y agoI wonder if this will finally allow me my dream of mashing "Eros Ramazzoti" with "Eiffel 65". Edit: I think it did (https://rave.dj/wpTgRoPZmv_6yg https://rave.dj/wpTgRoPZmv_6yg)... but that queue must be toasted right now.
- not1ofU 5y agoIt looks like your mix didn't complete. I got an error "Sorry there was an error while building your mix" For so long, I wanted to Mix "gnarls barkley: crazy" with "X-Press 2 Ft. David Byrne:Lazy". I made a poor attempt after hearing about "spleeter" [0] and FL Studio. This wasnt what I had hoped for, but its also not bad (certainly better than what I could do) https://rave.dj/Ag5i0KvOfVSmbA https://rave.dj/Ag5i0KvOfVSmbA [0]-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21431071 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21431071 Edit: 2 things I've noticed 1) The order you add the songs is important, it looks like the 1st track choosen is more dominant. 2) If it fails to mix, try a different (less mainstream) copy of the song (i.e. not from vevo or one of them, but some random youtuber that uploaded)
- not1ofU 5y agoI can't stop :-) https://rave.dj/O5Ld9QBXadT5-Q https://rave.dj/O5Ld9QBXadT5-Q This should never have been made, I apologies
- tomc1985 5y agoYou could realize that dream with a free DAW and a wave editor... No web app needed.
- smoldesu 5y agoSuper neat site, but be aware that content disappears from there constantly. I discovered a great Jet Set Radio x Justice mashup on the site a few months ago, and it appears to be completely gone now. Make backups!
- not1ofU 5y agolooking back on the thread posted by dang from 2018 (in this thread), some links are dead, some are still active (and some of them are amazing). I wonder if they dont get purged if they have a certain number of views /likes, or if posted by user with an account.
- konfusinomicon 5y agomy wu tang/jefferson airplane mashup while appropriately titled Cream Rabbit, did not turn out so well https://rave.dj/KI0Ppkzcp5zVvA https://rave.dj/KI0Ppkzcp5zVvA
- amirhirsch 5y agoYou Must've Been a Beautiful Baby (Bing Crosby) + The Beautiful People (Marilyn Manson) = https://rave.dj/pMtbBq6XQA3Dzg https://rave.dj/pMtbBq6XQA3Dzg I'm waiting for it to finish "What a Wonderful World" x "Black Hole Sun"
- not1ofU 5y agoThe first 20 seconds are great and the rest is better than what I was expecting. Post the other one too please.
- imwillofficial 5y agoSeriously cool. With a little knowledge of key matching, you could make some seriously interesting mixes!
- not1ofU 5y ago"Wonderful world sun (acoustic)" didnt turn out so good unfortunately: https://rave.dj/W82-TookjbQvkg https://rave.dj/W82-TookjbQvkg
- soylentcola 5y agoIt's surprisingly decent if you pick songs that are already somewhat compatible. It's understandably terrible at deciding when to bring up vocals of either song (often having both playing at once) but I could see something like this working to help get some ideas if you already had something in mind. For example, I put in two songs that I've actually mashed up manually. It wasn't nearly something you could consider "complete" or even "good" but it gives an idea of how it might work.
- seph-reed 5y agoI've spent a lot of time talking about art with art friends. At this point, we've all seem to agree on three different aspects of art: 1. Non-random uniqueness / creativity. Even is something is lame, originality alone can constitute art. (e.g. weird, uncomfortable stuff) 2. Story. The context or meaning behind a thing can take something done before and make it new again. (e.g I made a rubber band ball for my ex-lover...) 3. Skill. Something can be totally derivative and bland, but if it's really hard to do.. the act of doing becomes the art. (e.g. high-quality muzak) One thing not in this list is "familiarity." Even though familiarity is most humans favorite thing. Familiarity is actually a major aspect of what defines popular media. I find that mash-ups lean really hard on the positive connotations of familiarity.
- not1ofU 5y agoalso subverted familiarity. My favorite example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5P5IS0gwWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5P5IS0gwWI (loosers paradise)
- seph-reed 5y agoThis one is seemingly pretty strong in all three of the things mentioned. subverted familiarity = originality the skill is super impressive and while I don't know the story behind this, it could very well be quite meaningful
- not1ofU 5y agoI am not sure I agree with: subverted familiarity = originality, but I guess in the context of your original post, I see what you're saying. Maybe subverted expectation would have been a better way to express what I meant.
- seph-reed 5y agotrue. there are artists who just kind of "do the opposite of normal," which is pretty derivative.
- dleslie 5y agoIt still seems to have trouble knowing what to down mix and what to filter. That said, if you use tracks that sample other tracks, it works OK: Pressure Ice Baby - https://rave.dj/3OP4C39NUmxLwg https://rave.dj/3OP4C39NUmxLwg
- gtpedrosa 5y agoCan't help but remember LCD Soundsystem + Miles Davis duet from 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huEtJw7pfLk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huEtJw7pfLk Blew my mind back than as it still does today
- bArray 5y agoThis is a cool project! What's the formula for figuring out if something will blend well (as a human)? I failed several times... The closest I got was "Dreams Nation Army" (Sweat Dreams & Seven Nation Army) https://rave.dj/bS7DTzUs_kvFMQ https://rave.dj/bS7DTzUs_kvFMQ - Sounds okay.
- not1ofU 5y agoKey and Tempo are (I think, I am far from expert / novice even) the 2 most important points to consider. Most songs wont match so its required to pitch shift to align keys (which can also affect the tempo), and tempo because you want the beats to match up, otherwise it will sound like a mess. Your "Dreams Nation Army" works well because 7 nation army is pretty much a copy of Sweet dreams and they fit well together. VirtualDJ [0] allows to load multiple mp3's and can match key / tempo at the click of a button (manually or autodetect). They even built in the option to split stems using the spleeter tech [1] [0] - https://www.virtualdj.com/ https://www.virtualdj.com/ - if you want to use the spleeter tech, Win 10 is required. It can run in a VM though ;-) [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21431071 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21431071
- kmlx 5y agofor djing we can use the circle of fifths and the software “mixed in key” as a starting point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_fifths https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_fifths https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_In_Key https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_In_Key and by adding beatmatching we get very nice mixes or transitions. after a while you won’t need either of these as things will start working out by themselves.
- tomc1985 5y agoJust a quick note... Mixed in Key is no longer necessary as both Pioneer and Serato's DJ apps include this functionality in the base, free versions. Also, GP might want to look up the 'camelot system', which relabels keys in a simple numeric system which makes it a lot easier to determine which keys are compatible without memorizing the entire circle of fifths. Every DJ I have met or played with that keymatches labels their tracks in this fashion. You can print this out and stick it on your wall for quick reference: https://mixedinkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/CamelotWheel.jpg https://mixedinkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/CamelotWhe...
- dang 5y agoOne past thread: Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17849029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17849029 - Aug 2018 (94 comments)
- not1ofU 5y agoThanks for posting. There is gold in there.
- tailspin2019 5y agoThis is awesome. I’m on my 10th mashup so far… So much fun.
- not1ofU 5y agoSo much fun indeed, last one before bed https://rave.dj/AeBG2PWYqpIt-g https://rave.dj/AeBG2PWYqpIt-g
- cbm-vic-20 5y agoLady A vs. Alan Parsons Project does well, especially the chorus parts, which are identical. https://rave.dj/_iUxT46RQ89dZA https://rave.dj/_iUxT46RQ89dZA Run DMC and the Bob James track they sampled heavily: https://rave.dj/Y6TGXT9GkgARGA https://rave.dj/Y6TGXT9GkgARGA
- trueduke 5y agoMashup fans may be interested in Party Ben's legendary mixtapes, the Sixx Mixxes -> http://www.partyben.com/sixxmixx/ http://www.partyben.com/sixxmixx/