A track created by "Song Morphing"

Actually I'm not very well equipped with other than orchestral sounds, so please don't expect sound wonders. I ended up with a mix of orchestral and some guitar and choir sounds. It's mainly the standard sound set of Halion Sonic SE.

For me this is composing too..interesting arrangment.

You are using also Halion Sonic Se and i like to see more support for that in SFP , by using their keyswitched sounds like i see it be done in Cubase..perhaps SFP can use this workflow too?
Than there is more control about the articulated sounds and dynamics too

Ariculations lanes can be used than for all articultions.

Thanks Juergen for sharing your workflow insights with us. Well done piece. I would not have recognized it. The original is a rather generic progression and arrangement. You really made something different off it.

Juergen, thanks!

Great transformation and the "Song Morphing" workflow can work even for me. At least in a simplified version. Years ago I collected a lot of midi files that I have never used or even listened to but now I am lucky to have them.

I hope the old masters like Mozart, Bruckner, Strauss, Tchaikovski will
forgive me. I put them all through this meat grinder, called Synfire.

They will for sure, because they did so too. There were no computers at that time, so they had to it manually. Every new art is based on fragments and inspirations taken from multiple sources. That's how the evolution of culture works.

Hi juergen

this is nice work
i love the mood especially of first part ( till 2:45)

in this example there is no way to recognize what was the original song
also i agree... creating a new song by morphing existing ones its really good way to start
and
also to me its actually "almost" same thing
with creating a song by using Accompaniments.

just for example
i think you'll recognize the first part :)
(https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/track…)

Juergen,

Thanks for sharing the wonderful "song morphing" idea. What I did with the bulgarian singer was somewhat similar but much simpler and great as a test project. After listening to the examples uploaded so far I decided to try "song morphing" too :)

So now I have brutally butchered a very nice song and filled it with a crazy chord progression that probably violates every possible harmonic rule and leads nowhere. Ha ha! This is so much fun :) And I actually believe that I am learning something too!

I kept the structure of the original song and two instrument tracks. But I radically changed the chords and used Pulse Controller to record a basis for a new lead melody which Synfire adapted quite well to the new progression although I made a few changes afterwords. It is fun to use Pulse Controller as it lets me focus on the "rythm" of the playing. One can of course also do this with a keyboard but "tapping" is fun and it works quite well.

As usual I exported a MIDI file and finished the "thing" in Logic. 

Can you guess the original song?

(https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/track…)

PS. One day I will try to make something that has some kind of musical structure and meaning. But first I will play some more :)

Cool. The rhythm is flowing nicely. That pulse thingy seems to be extremely helpful.

Sounds good : the art of musical composing is to tell someone a story: emotional

Good exercises for try in the future to master musical structure
Basic is Repeating - Variation

Too much variation makes it that you loose the  attention of the listener ..it is a balance between repeating and variation

What do you think of the "minimalism" as composing form (as example)

• "quoting":
• Minimalism, as a musical art movement began in the early 1960s and was brought to prominence btyTerry Riley with the enormously influential piece entitled "In C". It has been growing steadly ever since and composers such as Philip Glass , Steve Reich, John Adams and Michqel Nieman are all very successful in this genre, writing music for film and theater as well as concerts works. Indeed the music of Glass and Reich is now so freqeuntly imitated that the style can be heard on all manner of television commercials and incidental music.
• The cyclic and repetitive techniques used in minimalism often produce  music  of a static nature ideally suited for use with the moving image in the form of atmospheric soundtracks. These same techniques also make it ideal music for composing within sequenzers, such as Cubase. However, because the music is essentially repetitive, many people mistakenly believe that all they have to do is  compose in a few measures and apply the repeat function. This inevitably leads to very boring music indeed. To make  it interesting, just as in all other forms of music , repetition must be combined with variation.
• There are many techniques used in minimalism , and the repetitive nature of the music often belies its complexity 
  The author makes 2 arrangments for this
  The book : Get creative with Cubase SX/SL shows these arrangments

Thanks everyone for listening, encouragements and comments :)

That pulse thingy seems to be extremely helpful.

Yes, it is fun to use and quite useful with Synfire. I'm sure I can use it in many upcoming projects.

Basic is Repeating - Variation

Too much variation makes it that you loose the  attention of the listener

Yes, I totally agree, but right now I am like a little child who has been given a huge set of colorful crayons and who insists on using all of them on every picture :) I know that my morphed song is totally confusing as it lacks a basic structure but I quite enjoy learning by making mistakes while trying to remember:  "Less is more" and "Kill your darlings" :)

What do you think of the "minimalism" as composing form

Thanks for bringing that up. "Minimalism" is a "style" that I would really like to understand. I have previously listened to and enjoyed music by people like Philip Glass , Steve Reich and also some less known composers like Howard Skempton. So trying something like that is definitely high up on my "to-do" list.

No, I can't guess the original song.

Well, the song is based on Beatle's Hey Jude! And the piano and the guitar tracks are changed very little, but I did test many different setting for the figure recognition and this had a big effect on the score. I intend to revisit the song in a few weeks and possibly make a new version. 

I think we could organize a new kind of a contest: "Do you recognize my morphed song?"

It seems that it has already started :) Maybe it could be an ongoing "contest" until somebody donates a prize! 

Never in a million years would I have recognized this! Extremely interesting and good work. Iplayed bass for a living in the Beatles era! Now I will have to play with some Beatles midis!

Very cool piece! Morphing is something I really need to wrap my brain around. Thank you for shareing you music and also for sharing your workflow!