MTV Music Generator Helped Create Chart Music 18
sharph writes "A band called Boomkat, made up of Kellin Manning and his sister Taryn, use the Playstation game MTV Music Generator to sketch out songs before re-recording them. Here's a NY Times article about it (Yeah, free reg. required.) Their first single, "The Wreckoning", got to No. 24 on the US pop charts. Interesting read."
Yep. (Score:1)
Make Your Own Video (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:activex/smil (Score:1)
Google News link: (Score:1)
Quality of Chart Music? (Score:1)
Try generating Mozart.
Re:Quality of Chart Music? (Score:2)
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Re:Quality of Chart Music? (Score:1)
Well, the program was used to "sketch" the music, which sort of implies that they didn't do it all the way on the program.
If the chart-topping single would have been made from beginning to end within the generator using nothing but pre-packaged samples, that might have been far more worrying.
::spills coffee when listening to a cool .mod remix of Bach's Tocc
Now we just need... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Now we just need... (Score:1)
Console controller as instrument (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Console controller as instrument (Score:2)
To think that to learn the keyboard on a synth is any harder then learning where the keys are on a control pad is rediculous.
The problem with playing music well is timing and the distortion their of (style). You must feel the music and have the timing perfect, but not quite their.
I learned the fingering for the saxaphone in about 2 hours, I never became a good player because I have no feel for music.
Norwegian electronica group Tøyen ... (Score:1)
http://www.fuzzlogic.com/lunakafe/moon70/no70b.
What MTV Music Gen 2 actually IS... (Score:2)
...is a loop sequencer. A loop can be any sound, a synth, a guitar, a drumline, a bassline, a vocal, name it. The program sequences the loops, lets you get nitty-gritty to make mini-melodies out of one shot sounds and use THOSE as loops, etc. It's like Acid Music but it can delve down a level.
I've done plenty of music in MG2, and enjoyed it a lot. The hard part is getting a quality recording off your PS2, and IMPORTING loops from an external source. Nasty, and requires a special purpose sampler device. Th