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Microsoft Songsmith is another one that deserved a second life. It let you hum or sing a melody and would auto-generate full backing tracks, guitar, bass, drums
by zyklonix 11mo ago
Microsoft Songsmith is another one that deserved a second life. It let you hum or sing a melody and would auto-generate full backing tracks, guitar, bass, drums, chords, in any style you chose.
It looked a bit goofy in the promo videos, but under the hood it was doing real-time chord detection and accompaniment generation. Basically a prototype of what AI music tools like Suno, Udio, or Mubert are doing today, fifteen years too early.
If Microsoft had kept iterating on it with modern ML models, it could’ve become the "GarageBand for ideas that start as a hum."
- dlcarrier 11mo agoIt also had one of the best campy promotional videos ever produced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8GIwFkIuP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8GIwFkIuP8
- rzzzt 11mo agoI will just leave this here: https://youtu.be/mg0l7f25bhU https://youtu.be/mg0l7f25bhU
- senderista 11mo agoThis was my personal favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWYwY8GpuO0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWYwY8GpuO0
- Wistar 11mo agoOh, that is simply fantastic.