EricRyanDec 20, 2022
Terence Eden
This is *amazing*.
You can take an MP3 and encode it into MIDI. The results are horrifyingly mesmerising. Can you hear the vocal?
(Stolen from https://www.tumblr.com/red3blog/135098280942/formeldeharv-i-put-all-i-want-for-christmas-is )
Red No. 3

I'm driving myself up the wall because I swear I can hear the vocal line but I don't know how that could be if it was truly converted to MIDI. Unless you can replicate speech sounds entirely with mod…

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Show threadTerence EdenOct 21, 2023

…and here's the MIDI version "enhanced" with Adobe's AI Podcast tool.

There is a deeply strange male voice in there at times.

(Thanks to @lazerwalker for the inspirations - https://xoxo.zone/@lazerwalker/111269073594821019)

Emilia (@[email protected])

cursed fact: Adobe Podcast's "Enhance AI", a tool for noise removal and voice boosting, firmly believes that any audio you give it *must* have human speech. If you upload, say, vocal-free chiptunes playing on a Game Boy, it will *find* the speech. https://lzrwlkr.me/3S424J7

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Show threadandrewOct 21, 2023
@Edent @lazerwalker I fed the audio into Whisper and it seems there's a YouTuber trapped in there
Show threadTerence EdenOct 21, 2023
@mccllstr @lazerwalker
Amazing!
Show threaddanbriNov 5, 2023
@Edent @lazerwalker @mccllstr i have heard it hears “like and subscribe” when under-stimulated with actual words
Show threadMichael PorterOct 21, 2023
@Edent @lazerwalker This has the makings of an audio trivia contest question. Take pop tunes, feed them through, and try to get people to identify them.
Show threadDuncan StephenNov 7, 2023
@Edent @lazerwalker Thanks for the nightmare fuel.🫠
Show threadSara Joy Dec 20, 2022
@Edent 'horrifyingly mesmerising' is exactly right! So weird how you can hear the voice drifting along somewhere underneath the nightmarish piano
Show threadBelascoDec 20, 2022
@Edent so much better! The nightmare of commercialized Christmas haunting the player piano of conscience.
Show threadBrian HoggDec 20, 2022
@Edent that’s how this always sounds to me
Show threadEricRyanDec 20, 2022
@Edent Horrifying, yet somehow...also not horrifying?
Show threadRob\Viewdata UKDec 20, 2022
@Edent
Will that was.. Something..
Show threadajkandyDec 20, 2022

@Edent So this is doing pitch-to-MIDI analysis? I kinda thought this would be a raw data to MIDI thing which would sound very, VERY weird.

On the other side, you can use tools to embed images in MP3s, as famously used in the soundtrack to the game FEZ. https://venturebeat.com/games/fez-hidden-images/

The Fez soundtrack’s hidden images and how they got there

The soundtrack to developer Polytron's Xbox Live Arcade-exclusive puzzle game Fez has only been out since Friday, but a group of industrious fans has already discovered a number of secret images hidden in individual music tracks.

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Show threadGavin DeichenDec 20, 2022
@Edent 😨
Show threadjoost 🐞 Dec 20, 2022
@Edent I love how frigging punk it gets when the song actually begins.
Show threadjoost 🐞 Dec 20, 2022
@Edent and yes, it's like you're listening to a ghost screaming through a piano
Show threadLilith Ashley Nyx Arson Dec 20, 2022
@Edent see also: https://yewtu.be/2SNTJurmfD0
Skrillex midi except played back in Windows 3.11

I was messing around with midis in win3.11 and this outdated meme is the result. The bass drops are my favorite part. The synth used in this is apparently "SB16 Extended Music Synthesis" according to Windows. Basically default soundblaster (emulated by dosbox) settings I suppose. I don't actually know shit about midis. edit: oh my god this was featured in a jpara video LMAO https://youtu.be/Pa-pZlh5sKw?t=371 "ew" -JasonParadise, 2021

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Show threadAdam DallianceDec 20, 2022

@Edent Nice. Reminds me of Chopsticks, the talking piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBEL3YVzMwk

Robot Piano Catches Fire Playing Rush E (World’s Hardest Song)

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Show threadMichael PorterOct 21, 2023

@Edent OMG, I’m adding that to my Christmas mix *now*

Interesting that I can’t hear the vocal at *all*, even though I’m very familiar with the song and am trying to hear Mariah in that mess. Normally the brain hears what it expects to hear (viz the “Yanny” & “Laurel “effect, or “Green needle” & “Brainstorm”).

Show threadpetes_bread_eqn_xlsDec 20, 2023
@MichaelPorter @Edent
“… you could ever know…” came through for me.
Show threadkætOct 21, 2023
@Edent Rings true to me. Vowels are relatively simple things, a bit like chords. Three or four "formant" frequencies is usually enough. If we could here plosives or sibilants I'd be more suspicious.
Show threadBen CurthoysDec 20, 2023
@Edent I can only hear a haunted piano calling for a lazy kid named Sparky.
Show threadAaron In MinnesotaDec 20, 2023
@Edent amazing. And gross. 🤣🤢
Show threadJL Johnson Dec 20, 2023
@Edent creepy. And cool
Show threadJonatan HildénDec 22, 2023
@Edent @Stoori Convenient, I was planning on posting this myself again!
Show threadhouse-of-leftDec 22, 2023

@Edent This is insane, horrible and mesmerizing all at the same time.

Really curious though, does anyone know how I can actually hear the vocals? Is it really possible to synthesize speech with only piano sounds?

Show threadR. Brent StansfieldDec 22, 2023
@houseofleft @Edent Look up Bregman's "sine wave speech" work from the 90s. I'm guessing the pitch of the piano notes combined with the low frequency of the inter-note interval is approximating forments of vowel sounds. Cool illusion.
Show threadThe cat who walks thru wallsDec 22, 2023
@Edent This is a great demonstration of something I learned from a friend's work on synthesizing and analyzing speech: the deeply weird ways the sounds we are so used to are made of sometimes quite complex combinations of different frequencies and timing.
Show threadTHE ROCK FiLESDec 20, 2024
@Edent Mariah Scary...👹
Show threadKoantigDec 20, 2024
@Edent there's a point at which I can't tell if the MIDI version is actually close to the original, or if it's my brain auto-correcting.