14 comments

  • pheraph 17 minutes ago

    I think my daughter will love this. How about some simple gamification mechanism? A score or a star rating on how well you performed, maybe combined with a difficulty level?

    • dsmurrell 11 minutes ago

      Each song has a difficulty rating from 1 to 5. You can use this to filter your library.

      And you can track your scores over the takes you did of a sing in your history. So I think OnKey has you covered on these.

      Let me know if it matches what you expect when you try it out.

  • wnissen 8 hours ago

    What a fun idea! I love that the song doesn't have to be programmed in by the developer. Will give it a try.

    Have you played the Rock Band and similar "rhythm games" that were all the rage in the Wii era? I don't know that it helped my singing per se but gave some incentive to practice.

    In case anyone is interested, you can test your relative pitch perception (as opposed to producing the pitch) in this excellent Yale site: https://www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/td I got 15th [sic] percentile!

  • manlymuppet an hour ago

    The main demo video uses the Red Hot Chilli Peppers as an example. A singing app, for learning to sing, and Anthony Kiedis used as the model.

    Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Anthony Kiedis.

    It's like if you had let Shaquille O'Neal teach you how to shoot threes.

    • dsmurrell an hour ago

      Yes, I got this from a friend... "Lol, I could t tell the difference between you and Tony Kiedis!"

      I'm terrible at detecting sarcasm usually, but this one was easy for me.

    • manlymuppet an hour ago

      I now realize this comment may read much more mean-spirted than I intended--not my intention!

      This is a great and cool app. I am just joking. Sorry to be an ass.

      • dsmurrell an hour ago

        Not at all! It's accurate :)

        I'd definitely still let Shaquille O'Neal show me how to shoot threes. Dunking on the other hand could be an issue.

  • nopurpose an hour ago

    Didn't know that external apps can interact with Youtube in a tab in Safari.

    Looks nice, I sing so badly that I never dare to try if not alone. Maybe this app will help me to improve just little that I can sing along happy birthday quietrly in a corner without anyone turning heads.

    • dsmurrell an hour ago

      > I never dare to try if not alone

      Yes, this was me. My confidence has improved through practise to a point where it only half killed me to post that demo video. My family still ask me to relocate when I'm doing this around them... so I think you can hit the pitches and still not sound amazing.

      Unfortunately, the way it works, and to avoid any copyright issues, it can't really operate on phones because you can't listen to other apps on them. Maybe the only way is to share your learnt pitch tracks (trained on the laptop) with a mobile companion app.

  • mkesper an hour ago

    This is a great learning tool! I wish I could use it on Linux. :)

  • HummingBirdGif 13 hours ago

    How are you detecting pitch?