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Pitch Perfect Karaoke

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the advancing-audio-processing dept.

BuffJoe writes "The folks paid to make newer and improved karaoke machines have discovered a way to make even the most tone deaf singers sound great with a new technology for perfect-pitch karaoke!" Make your cracks about Karaoke if you like, but read the article- there are hooks for scoring singing, correcting pitch, and more. Should also make those Karaoke parties a little more tolerable.

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  1. Obligatory Simpsons Quote: by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Thank you NASA"

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    1. Re:Obligatory Simpsons Quote: by geekoid · · Score: 5, Informative

      FYI "Thank you NASA" is from an episode of the Simpsons where bart, milhouse, ralph, and nelson form a boy band. Of course they can't sing, but there voices are fed through a box and "fixed". You know change tampo, pitch, etc.
      so it is Ontopic, should be funny. Just because you don't get the reference does not make it off topic.
      Now if I had said "The Simpson are going to antiartica...next year this year Brazil" that would of been an off topic simpson reference.

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  2. pitch correction is nothing new by enrico_suave · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Antares Autotune has been available in rack form for quite a while... You'd be surprised how many rock acts lean a little too heavily on that device to clean up their live vocal performances...

    hell Rosie O'donnel thanked the device in her christmas CD (although c'mon... in-tune/key bad music is still bad music)

    *Shrug*

    E.

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    1. Re:pitch correction is nothing new by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 5, Informative

      Digidesign's Pro Tools studio softwarehas had it for longer than the Antares has been around. I think the first mac versions did it. Hence the careers of most MTV staples.

      For example, if you know what to listen for (hard 'edges' to notes on vocals) you can hear it all over Britney's music. It's also being used as a vocoder-type effect (synth filtered by voice) on some recordings. The song on Kid Rock's hit CD that he sang on (it was country sounding) used it extensively.

  3. Wow! Imagine the future! by Kraegar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Early versions will adjust the pitch, future versions will go beyond that! Just think, someday I can "sing" the words along with the music, and due to their nifty software it will sound exactly as if I had the CD in.... Wait, if it sounds the same, why not just put in the CD? Doesn't this whole thing take some of the point out of it? I mean, bad singing included, that's the fun of Karaoke... laughing at people who try to sing along but suck...

  4. Yoko by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but can it fix Yoko Ono's voice?

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    1. Re:Yoko by Mononoke · · Score: 5, Funny
      Yes, but can it fix Yoko Ono's voice?

      No, that involves going back in time and nudging Mark David Chapman's shootin' arm to the left a bit.

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  5. This was already out decades ago... by MongooseCN · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's called "beer". If you have enough of it everyone sounds great at a karaoke party.

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