MySong: Sing to Your Computer to Write Music

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Mar 7th @ 4:09 AM

Writing music used to take years of experience, but not anymore. With MySong, a Microsoft Research Project, you can sing into a microphone and the software will automatically generates instrumental accompaniment for your song. As you sing, MySong chooses chords to match your melody, so you can write musical compositions, even if you don't have formal musical training. The technology was created by Ian Simon from University of Washington in collaboration with Dan Morris and Summit Basu from Microsoft Research and it is still under development, so you can't play with it just yet. However, you can visit the MySong web site and watch a video of the software in action. (via istartedsomething)

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USArcher

Cool, this has tremendous commercial potential.

mikegannotti

Where can we get this? I work with teens doing videos and they want to do music mashups for their website. This would help in the creation of original composition for video mashups vs typical "borrowing" of music.

pokeystuff

Where can I get this??... me wantie.. Is this going to be a commercial product or a Windows Live style application? I am in the music industry and we could use this now!

sarahintampa

it's still being developed - we have to wait!! Sad