The best Microsoft Songsmith mash-ups, from an age before generative AI

Wait – maybe that’s the worst mash-ups. They’re so bad they’re good, though. Microsoft Research Songsmith, a 2009 automatic accompaniment software that worked with monophonic vocal input, was best known for its viral, cringeworthy promo video. But long before generative AI came on the scene, Songsmith also gave us these. Queen – I’m sorry. Rewind/flashback time…

Peak 90s Opcode in a Vision training tape, NIN music video

Do you want to travel back to 1990s music production? Were you not born yet and want to experience it in a fully immersive way? Opcode’s Josh and Nine Inch Nails have you covered.

Peter Kirn - November 4, 2024

Charlie Clouser of Saw and NIN has made a sound library for Spitfire, “Hammers”

The White Zombie producer, former Nine Inch Nails keyboardist, and SAW film composer makes exactly the sort of brutalist soundbank you’d expect.

Peter Kirn - July 22, 2021

Make Noise and Alessandro Cortini made a new instrument – here’s the story behind it

Peter Kirn - January 29, 2021

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