Serato just released Stems, which allows DJs to isolate drums, bassline, vocals in the tracks they are playing live. The algos are getting pretty damn good.
Re:Apple Introduces Apple Music Sing
by soylentcola on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @11:35AM
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I remember seeing something like this in VirtualDJ the last time I fired it up and updated a few years ago. Only noticed because they'd remapped the high/mid/low EQ knobs on my old Numark controller to remove bass, drums, vox, etc.
Wasn't what I was looking for initially but it was surprisingly good compared to the older "vocal remover" type plugins I remember having for Winamp et al back in the day. If I ever actually DJed anymore it would definitely be useful for mixing tracks.
Re:Apple Introduces Apple Music Sing
by CrypticShift on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:58PM
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And this is real-time (Like the apple sing). So it is a game changer for DJs (usability-wise)
Re:Apple Introduces Apple Music Sing
by ghostpepper on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @11:26AM
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Wait, there are Karaoke machines that can transpose songs?
Re:Apple Introduces Apple Music Sing
by soylentcola on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @11:52AM
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Most DJ software these days has tempo/key adjustment as well as hooks to connect to subscription karaoke services (basically Spotify for karaoke). Unless I had a business with a ton of old school gear, that's how I'd run a karaoke company nowadays. No worries about licensing/rights for songs, updating your collection with the autotuned robot song of the week, and easy to connect a laptop/mixer to an existing sound system or your own PA.
> Presumably the tracks need to be mixed for the format with dedicated vocal track.
Nope - it's using ML.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/06/apple-music-is-getting-a-n...
I wonder if this will have the real killer feature of professional karaoke ... the ability to transpose the song into a more convenient key for the singer. Apple have had this capability in Logic Pro's pitch shift and it's pretty good even on polyphonic music. Some Karaoke platforms use midi and midi-like formats and synthesize the instruments to do it, but I'd be surprised to see that here.