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Native Instruments - the Mouth

http://www.native-instruments.com/#...ktor/the-mouth/

This looks really, really interesting. The results they've shown in the video are incredibly lame, but I want to grab this and try it out. As someone with no musical training, it's very hard for me to produce good melodies. However, I often find myself humming original tunes. I've always wanted a tool like this to come along.

Cue people complaining about how another skill set has just been taken out of producing.

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Originally posted by Domesticated http://www.native-instruments.com/#...ktor/the-mouth/ This looks really, really interesting. The results they've shown in the video are incredibly lame, but I want to grab this and try it out. As someone with no musical training, it's very hard for me to produce good melodies. However, I often find myself humming original tunes. I've always wanted a tool like this to come along. Cue people complaining about how another skill set has just been taken out of producing.

Why not use melodyne...?

I don't think you really need a lot of training to come up a half decent melody.

Let's say you are in the scale of A minor.

You have the notes A B C D E F G. They are all of the white notes in the keyboard.

Start the melody on A, and end on A. Use A, C, and E a lot. Then just mess around.

This is just a suggested way to start composing melodies. This kind of stuff is covered in beginner theory books. There should be more than few at the bookstore.

they really didn't have a little pow wow and test run the name with a few dozen people. It sounds rather homosexual which I suppose is fair considering what it does. I just don't see a bunch of rap producers trying to find new ways to ruin vocals falling in love with a product of said name. I would of went with VOKAL TEK MPC

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Originally posted by Beatflux Why not use melodyne...? I don't think you really need a lot of training to come up a half decent melody. Let's say you are in the scale of A minor. You have the notes A B C D E F G. They are all of the white notes in the keyboard. Start the melody on A, and end on A. Use A, C, and E a lot. Then just mess around. This is just a suggested way to start composing melodies. This kind of stuff is covered in beginner theory books. There should be more than few at the bookstore.

It's shitty one-handed melodies like that which have ruined melody-oriented music. However, if I were to write something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfkVl5qPsgI

I would need training, a lot of help, or a synthesizer which can turn my mouth into a useful instrument. I'm not neccesarily saying this new Native Instruments program can actually do that, but it's a start.

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Originally posted by Domesticated It's shitty one-handed melodies like that which have ruined melody-oriented music. However, if I were to write something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfkVl5qPsgI I would need training, a lot of help, or a synthesizer which can turn my mouth into a useful instrument. I'm not neccesarily saying this new Native Instruments program can actually do that, but it's a start.

I think you could play all of those parts(individually) with one hand. None of it sounds overly complicated.

gets me every time

that was awful , what made the score great was the Hernan styled raw orchestra sound. This sounds way to polished. Take a listen ot the score. There is some amazing processing done to orchestral stuff.

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Originally posted by Mad for Brad that was awful , what made the score great was the Hernan styled raw orchestra sound. This sounds way to polished. Take a listen ot the score. There is some amazing processing done to orchestral stuff.

welcome to contempory music i just love movements

it isn't contemporary, it is boston pops.

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Originally posted by Mad for Brad it isn't contemporary, it is boston pops.

haha never the less dude i think it wins on emotional merit

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Originally posted by Domesticated As someone with no musical training, it's very hard for me to produce good melodies. However, I often find myself humming original tunes. I've always wanted a tool like this to come along.

I think you'll be disappointed, TBH. The Mouth (yeah, stupid name) is not so much a tool for creating melodies as it is an effect for warping/mangling vocal and drum parts into something pretty wild. It's much more vocoder-like in that regard. Yes, it has a bunch of preset riffs/melodies in the factory bank, but I don't think they'll get you very far in terms of writing original melodies and it certainly won't help you get your original tunes from your head to your DAW.

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Originally posted by owien gets me every time

Yep. Brilliant.

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Originally posted by cryophonik I think you'll be disappointed, TBH. The Mouth (yeah, stupid name) is not so much a tool for creating melodies as it is an effect for warping/mangling vocal and drum parts into something pretty wild. It's much more vocoder-like in that regard. Yes, it has a bunch of preset riffs/melodies in the factory bank, but I don't think they'll get you very far in terms of writing original melodies and it certainly won't help you get your original tunes from your head to your DAW.

God, is there anything you don't know about plug-ins?! lol

Off topic question: is there any VSTi synth that has comparable quality to the DCAM Synth Squad? The bottom end sounds very round, without any of that grittiness it has on the top. Please don't mention Trillian, I already have that.

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