Imagine that first quick experience also letting you explore some chords and styles… lots of songwriters have told us they’d love to have that! Then of course you’d work with other tools, other people, instruments, etc. If you’re a songwriter, you’ve probably had the experience of coming up with a melody and finding the nearest object with a “record” button on it just to get your idea down. Could it be a super-useful scratchpad for exploring new melodies and ideas? Definitely. Is it more than good enough to make a cute birthday song for Mom or a Valentine’s Day song for your significant other, even if you don’t play an instrument? Absolutely.įurthermore, for songwriters, is MySong going to replace the craft of songwriting? Never. when not using just the simple piano part you hear in our video) to give someone a feeling that they’ve created something musical for the first time? Absolutely. But is it more than good enough, when coupled with a style-based arrangement tool (i.e.
Is the output from MySong ready for radio? No. What MySong does do is give many folks who would never even tastesongwriting a great opportunity to just get a glimpse of music creation. No one will ever write, record, and produce a top-40 hit with any version of MySong. Our CHI 2008 paper discusses the system at a high level and presents an evaluation of the system our AAAI paper focuses on (a) a formal, mathematical description of our chord-generation and pitch-tracking systems and (b) additional mechanisms we use to intuitively expose model parameters to users.Īnd just a quick word on what MySong isn’t, particularly in response to the various forum posters who are (appropriately) very suspicious of anyone who thinks songwriting can be automated.
MySong is also a great tool for songwriters who want to quickly experiment with melodies and accompaniments. Come on, you know who you are… you sing in the car, or in the shower, or you go to karaoke clubs, or you just once in a while find yourself singing along with catchy commercial jingles. MySong is a creative tool for folks who like to sing but would never get a chance to experiment with creating real original music. MySong, introduced in our CHI 2008 paper, automatically chooses chords to accompany a vocal melody, allowing a user with no musical training to rapidly create accompanied music. Most folks never get a chance to answer this question, since writing music takes years of experience… if you don’t play an instrument or spend lots of time around music, you’ll probably never get to write a song. MySong is now Songsmith you can download a free trial (or the full version, if you’re a teacher who wants to use it in your classroom) at:
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