Compose your own tunes, without song-writing skills, with Microsoft Songsmith

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Compose your own tunes, without song-writing skills, with Microsoft Songsmith

January 14, 2009 in Music | Permalink

If you read interviews from various musicians, some of the most famous song writers tend to write very simply. Perhaps a few chords, with someone humming a basic melody over the top. At this stage, any words are just made up to fit in to the melody. Once that sounds effective, the musician will start to build the rest of the song. This means that you don't necessarily require traditional song-writing skills to produce your own track. Or at least the early version of the track.

Microsoft Songsmith is a tool from their Research Labs that will enable a user to hum or sing in to a microphone, choose a theme and record their first track. The application ships with a number of pre-designed tracks that will automatically wrap around your singing. This isn't a completely free application though, so you'll need to purchase if you find it useful.

Microsoft Songsmith link.

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