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How on earth have they done this ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dcfpH8oJoM&feature=player_embedded

Still can't get the bloody youtube link to work properly.

It's dead easy to do if you can isolate the tracks: just flatten the major thirds to minor thirds and any major perfect sevenths to minor sevenths. Trivially easy with a good wave editor (like Adobe Audition).

They've done a good job, but the note on the word "song" (take a sad song) has been left in the major key and jars, to these ears.

You know what this reminds me of?

Of all things, it's like the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's minor-keyed version of George Formby's Leaning On A Lamp Post.

It starts at 55s or so:



JN

'It's dead easy to do if you can isolate the tracks: '

Therein lies the rub.

Without that I can't imagine how they've done it.

So who did it ?

P.S. If it's that elementary perhaps you might treat us to a version done by your good self on youtube ?

Nice find Ecca, it's very eery isn't it. I would guess the vocal has been isolated using the same phase process as used removing Hank from stereo tracks, but doing the opposite. You could be left with just the backing track and and also vocal only. The vocal would then be manipulated in melodyne or autotune. I would guess instruments in the backing track, from what I can remember, are heavily panned left and right, so you could perhaps isolate instruments further. Not sure how the piano chords were changed from major to minor though.

Here's another..... the other way round.



The program most probably used to do these 'simple' tasks is called Celemony Melodyne.

Major/minor keys, or modes?

Bill