John Lagomarsino
Video · Photography · Music · Motion Graphics

I’m pretty sure this is the coolest, most mind-blowing thing I’ve ever seen.  I’ve never used Melodyne, but evidently the public beta of the newest version is now available to existent users.  The idea behind the new Direct Note Access is that Melodyne listens to polyphonic audio sources, picks apart the individual notes, and then lets you edit the whole thing in a fashion much like that of a MIDI piano roll.

This is just so cool.  It also means that you can use sampled loop libraries in an entirely different way now.  For instance, I don’t play the guitar, but I’ve got lots of strumming acoustic loops that I can use.  However, these are loops tend to be stock chords/voicing/progressions.  But apparently, you can change all that now, and use the timbre and feel of a sample and mold the pitch independently.  It also means that spot-on guitar track you recorded without noticing the E string was flat is now usable again.  This is blowing my mind.

I just heard that Ellen DeGeneres is the replacement for Paula Abdul on American Idol.

This one comes from the bizarre story of a pizza delivery man who decided to use a customer’s son as ransom. If the pizza place had a jingle, this would be it.

Here’s a ditty that is at once two firsts (confusing, no?).  It’s the very first cover ditty, so sorry if you were expecting originality. This is the theme to the best children’s show to ever air.

Also, this ditty is recorded and mixed entirely on nothing but an iPhone attached to a Blue Mikey, using the FourTrack app. Kinda cool that you can now use your phone to track and mix a decent-sounding 8-layer song. I’ve got some nifty video of the recording, which I’ll post later.

I don’t even know.

One more missed connection. I really couldn’t resist this one.

EDIT: I must be illiterate or something, because the listing clearly says “Dixon,” not “Dixie,” as this ditty goes. I thought it was a strange play on words…

It’s weird how there’s such a huge correlation between a new song and traffic to this site.

I guess this means I should write more often.

Here’s a setting of a particularly nerdy/creepy Missed Connection.