[BC] Off-key choir

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Actually, no.

I read an article on this a few months ago.  There IS software that  
can pick music apart and fix ONE thing in it, a vocal, an instrument,  
whatever.

I find this hard to accept, but I later saw something on TV about it,  
and they showed it working.  Kind of makes Linda McCarthy worth  
listening to! <g>

That software was NOT the ProTools plug in that has been written  
about here recently, but it wasn't overly expensive.  As I recall, it  
was under $500, maybe $300  I cannot find it right now.

There was a story on National People's Radio recently about old wire  
recordings.  It turns out that many of them have all kinds for speed  
problems, and problems with the wire stretching.  A college professor/ 
researcher wrote software to analyze the NOISE in the recording to  
fix the speed issues, and then remove the noise.  The playback was  
just amazing once those old wire recordings were fixed.

DSP is just amazing.  I took some DSP courses a decade or more ago.   
I was able to program some filters and such, and they amazed me  
coming from the analog world, but the stuff going on today is just  
incredible.

Hey, look at the Omnia and Orban processors!

On Feb 8, 2009, at 10:18 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 6
> From: WBRadiolists at aol.com
>
> This can only work if each choir member is individually mic'ed, and
> there is minimal pickup of the voices on every side of him/her. If one
> person's voice is off-key, but the person next to them is not, when  
> you
> pull the off-key voice on-key, that will pull the on-key, off-mic  
> voice
> out-of-key.
>
> Willie...
>
> In a message dated 02/07/2009 5:42:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> warp99 at hotmail.com writes:
>
>> I know of one church in Tucson, that happened to have a very well
>> equipped AV booth (and a very savvy audio guy who ran it) where
>> they used ProTools to fix problems with off-key choir singers.  In
>> real time.
>>
>>  Allen Sherrill