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Everyone already probably knows this, but if you search <Song Name> acapella or <song name> isolated vocals on youtube you can get the vocals to songs you want
by ROTMetro 4y ago
Everyone already probably knows this, but if you search <Song Name> acapella or <song name> isolated vocals on youtube you can get the vocals to songs you want to cover. Sometimes its the original isolated, but sometimes its just someone singing it. I've been having a lot of fun with Reverbmachine's Legends bank and vocals from youtube. Eurythmics Sweet Dreams for example.
On a tangent, when I was in prison my mom died, and Kate Bush was her favorite music. Also in prison as a coping mechanism I created my own superstition that music on the radio was a message for me (I know it isn't but I needed a way to just get a little space to breath). Like Tom Petty meant the the day was going to turn out ok. So I programmed myself to be super receptive to Kate Bush being popular again and it's been amazing for my mood and productivity. Programming little positive things into my makeup has been really important in getting through stuff, be it addiction or just day to day difficulties.
- sthatipamala 4y agoI have nothing to add on the synth/music aspect, but thank you for sharing your personal story. The idea of programming your mind to get through tough times really resonated with me.
- ROTMetro 4y agoIt's actually been a super great tool because it randomly breaks me out of the moment/pattern I'm in. If a song comes on it snaps me out of any bad loop and I have space to remember it's just a bad day not a bad life.
- tomduncalf 4y agoYou might be interested in Meta’s Demucs, which can split a song into drums, bass, vocals and other stems. It’s really very impressive, I can’t quite believe such results are possible! https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs You can try it out at https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/demucs https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/demucs if you don’t want to install it. If you google “source separation” there are a bunch of hosted services which mostly use either Demucs or Spleeter (which was an earlier, good but not as good, system from Deezer)
- themitigating 4y agoSongs are also composed of each instrument on a single audio track and they are sometimes distributed
- tomduncalf 4y agoOh yeah of course, but in my experience it’s quite rare for these multi-tracks to end up online. Demucs can in many cases extract an acappella which would be good enough to make a remix with (of course using ML trickery, so it’s not going to be the actual real acappella and might have some leakage from other sounds in the track etc.)
- ROTMetro 4y agoThese tools are awesome, I have iZotope RX which also does a version of this, but when I'm in the music flow grabbing something off of youtube vs firing up another piece of software can be more conducive creatively for me.
- tomduncalf 4y agoYeah makes sense! I’m sure we will start to see this integrated into the next generations of a lot of music making software with it being open source. FWIW Demucs sounds a lot better than the RX separation (which I think uses Spleeter, could be wrong) to my ears - it doesn’t have any of that mushy “low bitrate” kind of sound, it’s much crisper
- ROTMetro 4y agoI wonder how hard it would be to write a Max4Live device that wraps this? That would be awesome, have the original track in my project for reference, and have a Max4Live device generate isolated stems of the different parts.
- tomduncalf 4y agoI thought about the exact same thing when I first saw Spleeter and it turned out someone had already done it: https://github.com/diracdeltas/spleeter4max https://github.com/diracdeltas/spleeter4max Looks like the meat of this is using a JS script to invoke Spleeter using execSync so it might be quite simple to adapt to Demucs, maybe I’ll give it a go!
- kreeben 4y agoMe and my siblings were raised by a single mother. She's still alive but I have a memory from when I was six or seven of her sitting for hours on end with headphones on, smoking cigarettes, sipping wine and listening to Supertramp. Three years later I discovered music (The Beatles White Album). Mom told me it's my dad's favorite record. To this day they're two of my favorite bands. Music has this weird property of connecting you to different people and different times. It's some kind of magic. Sorry to hear you've had it so rough. Hope you're ok.
- classichasclass 4y agoI know all the 'tramp fans say Crime of the Century is their best, and it's definitely classic prog rock, but I still love Breakfast in America despite its commercial pretenses. My best friend in high school and I first heard it on 8-track (!) and we enjoyed every song.
- ROTMetro 4y agoI'm all good. I'm glad you have that music connection. It's so powerful.