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.

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Originally posted by dj_alfi change your avatar for fucks sake.

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.

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Originally posted by dj_alfi change your avatar for fucks sake.

gets me every time

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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

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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.