I've finally finished my new RNB song titled 'Fly Away'.

Browsing round YouTube, I found a video on a software product called 'Melodyne', which specialises in voice enhancment - kind of (if not exactly) like what Chris Brown and T-Pain use. I decided to download the demo to try it out. What an awesome piece of software!

My girlfriend, Brooke, loves R&B. I'm not much of an R&B fan, but I wanted to do something nice for her, so I decided to write her a song.

So I started writing out lyrics and played along on my guitar.. Once I had the lyrics down, I recorded my voice singing the entire song, and opened Melodyne and played around with the pitch and tone of every note I sung. The program is very powerful. The software assigns and replaces a certain formant to every frame of sound in a certain note, this allows for note stretching and pitch shift with out loss of quality or having that 'chipmunk' style. It also allows the user to edit the voice samples vibrato - amplifying it or getting rid of it completely.

I discovered, however, that the demo version will not allow you to save your project or reder to any other type of file, ie. .wav or .mp3. So when I had done my voice editing, I changed the recording options on my computers sound control to 'Stereo Mix' (as opposed to 'Microphone') and recored in sound recorder on-the-fly.

The quality was great, however, my microphone picked up a lot of white noise which is slightly noticeable in the version posted on NG's.

Link to Fly Away

Enjoy!

Is it just me or has ZERO voting just got so much worse on NGs?

Don't get me wrong, the quality of songs that have been uploaded as of late are dropping, so i can understand low marks, but for instance my latest song 'Hitlers Fall' have already nine votes, sitting at 2-point-something but only with one freakin review!!

:EDIT: I understand people just saw the word Hitler and freaked. My bad people. sorry.
But to reinforce what I was saying, I had just hit the submit button on a new song I had uploaded and had time to vote on my own song (5/5 to get that boost going as you do =p) and some bastard had already voted 0!! They couldn't possibly have even heard the first 10 seconds!!!!

I think NGs should upgrade the voting system so that if one feels the need to vote, they must explain why they gave that score.

I'm all about reviews, the only way to better your work is by feedback.

What do you think?!

I have come to show the world the music I have created to further my skills as a music producer through feedback from the reviews. I would like to thank NewGrounds for providing the essentials for legal file sharing and the best review system I have come across yet.

Please listen to my music, enjoy and review!
- Jared