Hi, I was just thinking about the Remix of "Who Wants To Live Forever" You know the full Freddie version that has been floating around for some time, where the mixer has spliced in the Highlander "Freddie" vocal into the original version & removed Brian's vocal.
Well I thought how great it would be to do it the other way around, by using the "Jennifer Rush" version, lifting Brian's Vocal & adding it to to the original and leaving out Freddie's vocal.
well one major problem the 2 versions of the song are performed in a different key, so would sound horrible.
But Then I was watching some demos on youtube about "Melodyne" my question is, has anyone used the program & would it be possible to create a full Brian version?
here are some Queen Clips:- link link
The Beatles:- link
any info regarding the softwear would be appreciated.
Yeah, I dabbled some years back, but I couldn't get my head around it. Also, I'm hopeless when it comes to pitching, even with basic audio editing software, so I don't think I'd have a hope in hell's chance with this. The version of TSMGO sounds interesting, but the actual sound quality isn't too great. By that I mean, it's very obvious, even if you'd never heard the song before, where it's been 're-tuned'. The best mixes / remixes, in my opinion, are those that sound 'natural', like they could have been made that way originally. But, I'd love to hear what you can do with it. :)
I was just wondering how easy to use the program was before purchased/got hold of a copy that's all. But You have just answered my question, if you can't get your head around it, I wont have a "Cat in Hell" 's Chance..
Melodyne (as seen by the you-tube samples) is more for changing a song from major to minor (or vice versa). If all you were interested in doing is changing the key of a song (for example: from the key of C to the key of A), Audacity can easily be used to achieve that.
A Word In Your Ear wrote:
I was just wondering how easy to use the program was before purchased/got hold of a copy that's all. But You have just answered my question, if you can't get your head around it, I wont have a "Cat in Hell" 's Chance..
The problem I have is one of musicality, rather than of technical limitations. I could probably work out how to use the program, but I can't 'hear' which key is which, if that makes sense, and certainly couldn't tell a minor from a major if it smacked me in the face! I don't know if you need to know that sort of stuff to be able to use the program, as I never got that far with it, but I'm guessing that a basic knowledge of chords, keys, etc, would help.
Can you not download a trial of the program, and have a play with it?
I might as well chip-in here!
Melodyne is a very interesting piece of pitch changing software. I've used it to alter Freddie's vocals in a couple of things before. Unfortunately, I checked the forum for the links and they were rapidshare, so they've now disappeared :(
Of course, I have also used Melodyne for simpler operations like auto-tuned vocals. Anyway, if you want to hear anything in particular, give me an idea and I'm sure I could try something out.