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The very same issues plague modern music too. I listen to a lot of electronic music, which comes with a lot of people making remixes and such. Those are already
by Mithaldu 11y ago
The very same issues plague modern music too. I listen to a lot of electronic music, which comes with a lot of people making remixes and such. Those are already a massive pain.
Then i also listen to vocaloid music, where the complexity gets downright insane. Vocaloid music is music where the "performer" is a software using a prerecorded soundbank to render the vocals into the final piece.
For those you typically have: The song writer, the music writer, the music arranger, the vocals arranger and one to many soundbanks (which may come in variants, with two soundbanks being recorded from the same person, but with different tonal qualities). And to put the cherry on top, most of the people making this music only put them on youtube or niconico, the japanese youtube.
Getting sound files with any sort of useful metadata for those is almost impossible.
- justincormack 11y agoCan you link to some examples?
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoGoogle Hatsune Miku. See e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSyWtESoeOc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSyWtESoeOc Vocaloid is an example of marketing genius. The software appeared in the UK, and most people thought "Huh - sounds like a squeaky robot" and ignored it. In Japan they gave one of the packs a name and invented an anime character for it, and made it possible to share music and 3D animations freely. The crowdsourced market exploded into a huge cult following, with some of the best J-Pop writers creating popular vocaloid songs. And then there were holographic tours and parties, and Hatsune Miku became half in-joke, and half viral marketing diva with a distinct personality. The best songs are very good indeed, IMO.
- Mithaldu 11y agoI have a few examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmDDpJnnplA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmDDpJnnplA (challenge: what exactly is the vocal arranger's name here?) I like that particular rendition of the song, however note the sheer amount of other renditions of it: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hibikase https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hibikase --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQKGUgOfD8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQKGUgOfD8U The same, there's an astounding amount of variations: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=echo+vocaloid https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=echo+vocaloid --- For the last one i have two different variations i prefer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn15unrb7qw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn15unrb7qw (try figuring out how you'd tag that one in the first place) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUGHBR-lxrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUGHBR-lxrU (my favourite version with a vocaloid) And all the variations: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rockbell https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rockbell --- Then there's also the question of names. On of my favourite arrangers goes by うたたP, or is it utataP? He actually uses both.