Whether I listen or not listen, does not have anything to do with this. Nor is that a solution to anything. It appears that folks here do not know what respectful and disrespectful even mean.
Yeah. It appears that some don't....
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Yes, that is making more sense. All this business about un-baking the cake is new to me. I did know about Spleeter and derivatives, but I didn't think they had progressed so far.
Although technically impressive, I put this usage of AI in the same category as a gimmick or low-brow entertainment. So what if someone painstakingly copied a Sinatra sound, reproduced his voice and changed the lyrics for a single song. The real "gold" is for an application to seamlessly do this for any song with the user having full edit control of the output; and my prediction is that some company will provide exactly this within 5 years.
BiaB and AI could be a perfect marriage to allow the creation of fully editable custom styles and chord sheets (much like we have today) based on giving it a target audio sample. So if you want a Sinatra style, feed it a Sinatra audio sample. If you want a Frank Zappa, Chicago, chanting Monks meditation music or any other style, just supply the appropriate audio sample and the output would be a ready-to use SGU file. The days of scrolling thru and auditioning hundreds of pre-programmed styles would be replaced with laser focussing on the style you want.
This technology needs to move from the novelty/consumer/listener domain to the creative/editable/musician domain.
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So what if someone painstakingly copied a Sinatra sound, reproduced his voice and changed the lyrics for a single song.
In 2005, Paul Anka released on the album "Rock Swings". The album is covers of rock songs done in the big-band style.
The arrangement you're hearing in the video was created Brad Dechter, and played by studio musicians.
All that was done without AI.
The only thing that AI did was:
Split out the vocal from the backing track; and
Replace the timbre of Anka's voice with Sinatra's.
While that's technologically impressive, it's orders of magnitude less than the sort of thing you are describing.
Originally Posted by Bass Thumper
...and my prediction is that some company will provide exactly this within 5 years.
You've got expertise in the field to base this prediction on?
Because that's not the sort of predictions I hear from people who are actually trying to accomplish this. They're saying there's a world of difference between working with temporally stable pixels and time-changing audio.
Predicting that audio will follow the same timeline as AI generative graphics ignores the huge difference between them.
David answered my question. The band in this example is a real band with real musicians and a very talented arranger who has mastered the style of Nelson Riddle. Not easy!
Eddie, I should have been more precise. It is this thought that AI emulated a real big band playing a Nelson Riddle arrangement that I was skeptical of. Apparently we are not there yet. I’m glad because I write big band jazz charts.
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I wonder... what musicians of 1890's thought of Pianola(Player piano)? Was it something similar to what some people tend to think now about effects/influence of AI on music?
"an inventor in Germany, Edwin Welte, was working on a player which would reproduce all the aspects of the performance automatically, so that his machine would play back a recorded performance exactly as if the original pianist were sitting at the piano keyboard. Known as a Reproducing Piano, this device, the Welte-Mignon, was launched in 1904. It created new marketing opportunities, as manufacturers could now get the foremost pianists and composers of the day to record their performances on a piano roll. This allowed owners of player pianos to experience such a performance in their own homes on their own instruments, exactly as the original pianist had played it." - Wiki.
I certainly admire those skills that came before our time, but somehow would not be so certain that their delivery matched to quality of today's delivery.
Regardless, given time, these things will just continue to improve.
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I play music live for a living in a duo with Mrs. Notes.
Most of my competitors are using Karaoke tracks. I make my own backing tracks. Sometimes with the help of BiaB, sometimes from scratch, depending on the song and how close I want to cover it. It's a lot more work than downloading a K track.
I guess I could accuse the karaoke track duos of cheating, but what would be the point?
My goal is to sound better than my competitors. I think my tracks sound better. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Regarding bands using The Wrecking Crew, The Swampers, or other studio musicians to record their songs, I suppose that could be cheating too. But it sells records. The bands then have to learn the licks the studio musicians played when they go live. Even The Beatles couldn't reproduce many of their songs live. Is that cheating?
I've done some, but not a great deal of studio recording, but enough to know there is a difference between playing in the fish tank or playing in stage. Some bands also have the studio skills, but not all do.
I'm amazed at the deep fakes, and feel that ethically, there should be some notification. But I know even if one was required, it wouldn't be universally used, and there is no way to enforce it.
Respect? Isn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery?
When The Knickerbockers recorded “Lies”, it was so close in style that most people thought the song on the radio was actually recorded by The Beatles. Actually, I thought the band was tighter than the early Beatles.
We aren't going to answer the ethical questions here, although it's interesting to discuss them.
Me? I'm going to be amazed by the technology, and make a mental note not to believe what I see or hear. Then I'll go about my daily life, trying to get as much pleasure out of each day, for however many I have left. I have gigs to play, new songs to learn, food in the fridge, a roof over my head, a wonderful wife, I woke up this morning, and everything else is extra.
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Last edited by Notes Norton; 11/18/2307:27 AM. Reason: speling misteaks
If one form of backing tracks is cheating, then ALL forms of backing tracks is cheating. You making your own doesn't elevate you to some higher plane of "cheating", despite your high opinion of yourself. (You failed to brag about your 15-20 gigs per month. You slipping in your old age? And the cruise ships. Don't forget the cruise ships.) Backing tracks in any form still results in keyboard and horn players being unemployed.
There was a female duo here that sang over tracks. Nobody cared because they were both very good singers, and both extremely hot to a level where none of the men in the audience actually came to hear them sing. Their tracks were nothing more than a mutual producer friend removing the vocals with software, so they literally sang over the original band sans vocals. Cheating? Or just a shorter way to get to the same finish line every backing track group gets to eventually?
Several years back I was meeting a guy who wanted me to do some keyboards for him. The place we met had a small stage and there was a guy setting up. I paid no attention to him beyond noticing movement on that little platform. When he started I looked over and saw he was playing bass. BASS!!! How DARE he present himself as a solo act when all he did was play bass along with backing tracks? I mean guitar solos were tracks!! Short of putting a bass solo into every song, what is entertaining about watching somebody play the easiest instrument in the world of backing tracks? I mean, it's BASS! As I once told the bass player from one of my bands when he started to get too full of himself about how good "we" sounded, "Dude, WE (gesturing in a circle toward the actual real, actual, playing pieces like the horns and the keyboards) sound good. YOU are just here. If you were to have a stroke and die before a show, there are probably 5 or 6 people right in the audience who could come up and play your parts." A bass player can be replaced by the keyboard player's left hand. But by my own logic, that would also be cheating too, because iIf you want bass, hire a bass player (and pay him 3/4 scale). If you want horns, hire horns.
It becomes clearer and clearer why I can't keep a band together, doesn't it?
Y'all ain't seen her yet? Wait till you see her jamming with Steve Vai. On stage.
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BTW Eddie, since you asked. When we did cruise ships, we used the backing tracks I made myself, and set all-time revenue records in the lounge we played in. We were rewarded with a passenger sized cabin with a porthole, allowed to sell cassette tapes to passengers, and lasted 3 years on a 3-week contract which ended when Mrs. Notes' mom got sick, and we needed to jump-ship to become her caretaker.
But that's all off-topic
I mentioned various things that could be considered cheating and answered, “what would be the point?” That was to compare it with subbing Sinatra's voice over Anka's tracks.
Cheating or not isn't the question. My conclusion was:
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We aren't going to answer the ethical questions here, although it's interesting to discuss them.
Me? I'm going to be amazed by the technology, and make a mental note not to believe what I see or hear. Then I'll go about my daily life, trying to get as much pleasure out of each day, for however many I have left. I have gigs to play, new songs to learn, food in the fridge, a roof over my head, a wonderful wife, I woke up this morning, and everything else is extra.
So I guess you missed the point.
OT, years later when they sold the ship, the entertainment purchaser on the ships told me that our revenue record stood the test of time, and was the highest on that ship, and her two sister ships, ever. He asked if we wanted to come back on. I had so many land gigs, and we were still taking care of mom, so I had to say, "no"
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