microsoft's songsmith and how to use it
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How to use SongsmithTRANSCRIPT
Install SongSmith from wherever it is found on your computer
Tutorials
Get help at:http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/howto.html
Read about ithttp://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/
Tutorial video from Microsofthttp://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/video_StartANewSong.html
9 videos about SongSmith here - Videos created with and about Microsoft Research Songsmith:
http://www.youtube.com/user/songsmithvideos?feature=watch
This is the opening interface – the song starter selection box
Choose your settings
First explore the Demos and the New Song. Then click on Next
Now choose a style for your new song. Look through them all and select one. You can
download more styles if you wish. Press Next.
Choose your beats per minute. The higher the number the faster it gets. Click on Finish.
Check your settings and change any you are not happy with.
Check your settings at the bottom. Change if necessary. Note the red recording button. Press.
Sing and start recording
Songsmith will give two opening bars and then you start singing. Songsmith tries to match chords to your song . Press stop. SongSmith usually adds two bars to
end. Chose Clean Slate to retry.
You can experiment with the perameters at the bottom to make changes
Click on the Mixer button to get to change some of the instruments. Press Done.
Save your song as a SongSmith song
Keep exploring in the settings below till you are happy. It might take a while…
When you are happy export your song so that it plays without having to be opened
in SongSmith…MIDI works best for me.
You’ll see you can add your song to Windows Movie maker. Unfortunately no
option for MP3 but you can convert it later
Find your saved song in your folder and play it