I thought of this first
I was gonna post the following a couple of days
ago, but thought you all would laugh at me. (very sensitive)
"I would like to see a piece of software that could
analyze an audio file and report the properties of
the instruments used.
Like - Guitar [measures 1-8 fender strat n&b pickups vol 8 using
delay 53 mil seconds, also reverb right channel @ blah blah
thru such and such pre-amp into Peavy Model whatever,
twin 12.
Drum
(kit used) effects, drum particulars
Keys
such and such synth with following settings:
Then I would be able to model the sound I was looking for.
Many times I just want to get that sound of a particular artist.
Maybe have a database of the ‘great ones’ samples, with settings details,
(software and hardware).
For example - ‘I want a Jimmy Page sounding solo here’ ‘Like from ‘Stairway’’
So I plug that sample into program, and get back info
on instrument used, settings, effects/settings, amp used etc.
Give a starting point for modeling the sound. A preset based on databased
info of that particular sample."
Then today I come across this:
New Music Software Can Create Accompaniment To Any Melody, In Style Of Any Artist
Haven’t heard of any software like what you’re looking for, but there is program I tried back a couple years ago that attempts to make a midi file of an audio recording. I just glanced over the article you included. If it worked in real time, it might be fun to jam with.
Maybe some day -
After the 'Depression’
Hey, today is Black Friday.
Let’s all go to the Bank today just to freak 'em out.
When black friday comes
I’ll stand down by the door
And catch the grey men when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor
When black friday comes
Ill collect everything I’m owed
And before my friends find out
Ill be on the road
When black friday falls you know its got to be
Don’t let it fall on me
On the digitech website you can download a Word doc made up by all the forum members. It gives about 100 or so settings for their guitar FX pedals. Supposed to emulate the sounds of different artists in different songs. Of course, you have to play the parts yourself and you have to have a digitech pedal.
Just talkin’…
cliff
Makes me wonder if SIR could be used as a modler.
What would happen if an impulse were made from a straight/clean and distorted/amped guitar difference file (that’s pretty much what an impulse is), then use SIR to apply that impulse to a clean guitar track.
After all, SIR reverb is modling of room sounds.
g8torcliff
Thanks - I checked that out.
I have a Boss ME-50 that I use (sometimes).
And I can translate some of the settings (probably)
I was suprised ‘cus everyone on the ‘digitech’ site
is clamoring for the same thing.
‘I need a patch that sounds like STYX’ or whoever.
I’m thinking maybe an FFT match for an input sample.
Specifically, rip a sample from an artists’ CD - say Pink Floyd.
Then input a sample from your clean guitar.
And have a program run iterations of reverb, distortion, delay, etc.
til it gets a FFT match - then spit out the amounts of each
effect it applied to come up with the match.
7: That would definitely be pretty damn cool… I wonder if a program like GoldWave could do something like that? When I use it for noise reduction, I notice a box showing FFT. Something for me to think about…but…
I usually end up just jammin’ and forget about what I set out to do…
cliff
Quote: (phoo @ Sep. 26 2008, 8:40 AM)
Makes me wonder if SIR could be used as a modler.
What would happen if an impulse were made from a straight/clean and distorted/amped guitar difference file (that's pretty much what an impulse is), then use SIR to apply that impulse to a clean guitar track.
After all, SIR reverb is modling of room sounds.
Try it phoo, white noise file is how I make reverb impulse's, maybe it would work with a cab!
Let me know what you get. If I get time this weekend I'll play around with it.
An interesting read there 7 o’ 11. Thanks for the link.
Nothing there to do back-flips over though… If I read the report right, you pump three or four songs through the thing and based on certain “rules” it generates accompaniment for a new song. Where’s the fun in that?
Besides, if you want to do a song in any of the “greats” style, use Band-In-A-box and their Style Sets. Beaucoup of them available and with a bit of know how, very convincing.
Still… that’s an interesting bit on future technology. Pretty soon we’ll all be useless! 
(I already am.)
D
Yeh - I was kind of thinking the same thing,
but I think down the road, it’s gonna get more
model oriented. (see below) Especially with the vocal software.
Sorry, I had try and save this thread.
Well, Heidi Klum sure isn’t useless! Nice boots! 
Quote: (sevenOfeleven @ Sep. 25 2008, 11:00 PM)
I was gonna post the following a couple of days
ago, but thought you all would laugh at me. (very sensitive)
. . .
Then today I come across this:
New Music Software Can Create Accompaniment To Any Melody, In Style Of Any Artist
Does it make you think of the music and lit for the "proles" in 1984?
Yea that’s kind of cool. I mean for jaming or goofing around. It could possibly be the next karaoke setup. Automatic Style Specific Accompaniment = Ca’Ching!
The bummer as I see it is that groups or artists will copy the accompaniment the software creates, to finish off their works of art. Why do I say that? Well I knew this guy at mp3.com who had some pretty cool songs. Then one day he confessed to the forum that he wasn’t really a musican. That he bought stole and arranged all the clips to make songs and develop a fake artist hoping to make it rich with downloads. Hey, he was a great guy like most con’men. And I don’t mean to imply that all great guys are con’men. Just like Robert Plant doesn’t mean to imply that all musicians are really Beggars and Thieves.
Levi