Direct Note Access
DVICE has written a bit about a new software called Direct Note Access — it gives absolutely unprecedented control over musical recordings.
Until now, [correcting pitch] was only possible with single notes — an exaggerated example can be heard in Cher’s 1998 hit, “Believe,” which used the competing Auto-Tune system. For more than a decade, that software has been the recording industry’s dirty little secret, fixing any out-of-tune notes crooned by an individual singer or played on any single-note instrument. But this breakthrough takes that magic manipulation many steps further, allowing engineers to create entirely new music from existing recordings.
With this astonishing software, engineers can dig deep into < a mix. For example, they could change each individual note of a guitar chord, or fix one wrong note played by a musician in a symphony orchestra. It’s like Photoshop for music.
The demo video is the coolest thing I’ve seen all month — and the song they use to demonstrate the software is pretty cool, too. Make sure to watch the part where they start completely shuffling around guitar notes plucked out of individual cords.