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New Beatles track with a little help from A.I.

#6
I wish they would stop. Move on and create new for better or worse. By all means reference and acknowledge the influence of the Beatles (among others) but, along the lines of endless Hollywood reboots, remakes and samples, STOP already and be creative on one's own.

Me thinks there's so much sampling, recreating, remaking, CGIing, rebooting because many fear confronting their own limitations (the public's reaction to it) and not simply working to create their way out of it.
 
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At least George, Ringo and Paul actually had a hand in it.
Unlike You Tubes of dead artists covering songs they never sang, generated by AI/ML.
We are likely on the advent of AI generated "new original" material by dead artists, using the back catalog as a training set.

Here's the complete track:



I think It feels like it would slot nicely into Let It Be
And It's a pretty neat technical achievement.
 
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There's real music and then there's this kind of "stuff".

If this song would have been recorded by The Beatles back in 1970......it would have been very mediocre at best.

Today, through AI, even worse and no respect at all for a so called, Beatles' song! And no it's not!

Rubbish.

White noise for my sleeper sound maker.
 
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Matt O said:
I should have said no matter what you think of the song, or the Beatles for that matter, it’s a cool story and a pretty amazing example of machine learning.

Lifting a buried vox track off a 43 year old cassette and bringing it to this level is pretty astounding, imo.
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Strictly speaking, perhaps it is indeed a technical "feat". But basically it's milking the Beatles brand.
 
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Although McCartney got me wanting to play bass, I've never worshipped at the Beatles altar. My understanding is George hated this tune. There's some weird warbly "stretched out tape" thing going on as well, it seems. Really sounds to me more like a track from a Lennon solo disc. I don't care for it but then don't care for most of the Fab Four's solo excursions, except George, who I though did some pretty great stuff. Sadly, all the rabid Beatles fans I play with will probably want to learn it... :rollno:

The Bar Band Bassman
 
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Well, I'm glad to have finally heard it after all the hype to build it up.
I must say that I found it.... underwhelming.

I think it's nice that the technology enabled them to isolate John's vocal and eliminate most of the wobble in the original audiotape, but the song is just not very good. I'm also kind of creeped out by the idea that they digitally extracted brief phonetic snippets of John and George singing specific syllables to create the artificial vocal harmonies.
 
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I like how it doesn't sound like the Jeff Lynne-produced "new" tracks from the 1990s

I don't like how overcompressed the whole thing is. It reminds me of what happens when I try to bring up the loudness of a song in SoundForge using the Wave Hammer feature and have the compression set too high. When there is so much going on in a song, the various elements need to be able to breathe on their own and not be constantly fighting for breath against one another. Some compression is generally good and necessary, and sometimes even somewhat heavy compression can be useful, but there is a line between what works for a song and what works against a song, and in this case they needed to back off on the compression... If this would have negatively effected the overall desired perceived loudness of the track, then they should have addressed that from a different angle rather than relying on MORE COMPRESSION!!! to fix it.
 
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SDC1-ClickClack said:
Well, I'm glad to have finally heard it after all the hype to build it up.
I must say that I found it.... underwhelming.

I think it's nice that the technology enabled them to isolate John's vocal and eliminate most of the wobble in the original audiotape, but the song is just not very good. I'm also kind of creeped out by the idea that they digitally extracted brief phonetic snippets of John and George singing specific syllables to create the artificial vocal harmonies.
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Creepy and somewhat lame too.
 
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You can look at this as a money-grabbing enterprise, but I have a different take: Ringo and Paul have an emotional connection with John and George that none of us have, and I sincerely believe that they wanted to share a "lost" song with the world, now that the technology exists to make it sound presentable.
I saw Paul in concert last year, and there was the bit where he was able to sing harmony "with" John on "I've Got a Feeling" because the tools now exist to isolate John's voice in the rooftop concert footage. It sure seemed that Paul got a real thrill from "reconnecting" with John that way.
My guess is that Paul and Ringo, now in their '80s, don't want to let opportunities like this slip by. Not opportunities to rake in more cash, but opportunities to honor their mates.
 
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dougjwray said:
You can look at this as a money-grabbing enterprise, but I have a different take: Ringo and Paul have an emotional connection with John and George that none of us have, and I sincerely believe that they wanted to share a "lost" song with the world, now that the technology exists to make it sound presentable.
I saw Paul in concert last year, and there was the bit where he was able to sing harmony "with" John on "I've Got a Feeling" because the tools now exist to isolate John's voice in the rooftop concert footage. It sure seemed that Paul got a real thrill from "reconnecting" with John that way.
My guess is that Paul and Ringo, now in their '80s, don't want to let opportunities like this slip by. Not opportunities to rake in more cash, but opportunities to honor their mates.
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+1. Pretty sure those guys don't need the cash, and it holds little motivation for them here. Of course, those around them could be pushing them in certain directions because it also serves up money to the Beatles Machine. But I agree that Paul and Ringo aren't money grubbing here.
 
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dougjwray said:
You can look at this as a money-grabbing enterprise, but I have a different take: Ringo and Paul have an emotional connection with John and George that none of us have, and I sincerely believe that they wanted to share a "lost" song with the world, now that the technology exists to make it sound presentable.
I saw Paul in concert last year, and there was the bit where he was able to sing harmony "with" John on "I've Got a Feeling" because the tools now exist to isolate John's voice in the rooftop concert footage. It sure seemed that Paul got a real thrill from "reconnecting" with John that way.
My guess is that Paul and Ringo, now in their '80s, don't want to let opportunities like this slip by. Not opportunities to rake in more cash, but opportunities to honor their mates.
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Yeah, that was made pretty explicit in the doc
 
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