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Sassafras Spaceships

By Cosmic Cairns on August 24, 2022 9:42 pm

I started out by taking the drums from last week's track and reamping them, reversing them, and finally ran them through Valhalla Supermassive.  Then I did the same thing with some of the backing vocals from last week track.  From there I laid down a bassline and then piled on some various cello and synth sounds.  Oh yeah and a bit of slide whistle.  Finally I decided to play around with some AI voices and had them say some weird/ridiculous phrases. 

On an semi-related note I read an article recently about how the technology of AI voices is getting to the point that soon we will be able to replicate anyone's voice living or dead and in theory you could have the voice of John Lennon or Elvis Presley singing your song.  I'm not 100% sure how I feel about that, but in the meantime I will for sure have fun making AI voices say silly phrases.

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Sounds like what would happen if you let an an audio version of DALL·E take 9 shots at Einstürzende Neubauten on acid and you picked the best one. Great use of Supermassive; sounds trippy af.  cool

CosmicCairns wrote:

On an semi-related note I read an article recently about how the technology of AI voices is getting to the point that soon we will be able to replicate anyone's voice living or dead

I'd settle for getting the voices on phone menus and train station announcements to sound like anyone at all.

this is what it would sound like if they had a baby... a baby dancing in a spaceship named Elvis Lennon heart

ineff wrote:

Sounds like what would happen if you let an an audio version of DALL·E take 9 shots at Einstürzende Neubauten on acid and you picked the best one. Great use of Supermassive; sounds trippy af.  cool

CosmicCairns wrote:

On an semi-related note I read an article recently about how the technology of AI voices is getting to the point that soon we will be able to replicate anyone's voice living or dead

I'd settle for getting the voices on phone menus and train station announcements to sound like anyone at all.

Thanks!  And yeah, it'll be cool to have famous voices doing stuff like that I think.  Just not sure if I'm ready to hear, like, Freddy Mercury hawking hemorrhoid cream in a commercial or something.



RajaTheResidentAlien wrote:

this is what it would sound like if they had a baby... a baby dancing in a spaceship named Elvis Lennon <3

That seems like it would be a fun spaceship to be on.

I had a great time on this journey, and would happily take it again, no matter which planet we end up landing on.

Your track this week reminds me of the magic of the band SilverApples from the 60ies. A wild psychedelic ride.

hent03 wrote:

I had a great time on this journey, and would happily take it again, no matter which planet we end up landing on.

Thanks!  There's no telling where the journey will lead.  Even on repeat listens!



Q-Rosh wrote:

Your track this week reminds me of the magic of the band SilverApples from the 60ies. A wild psychedelic ride.

I remember listening to one of their albums a few years ago and it was some pretty wild stuff.  Might have to do a revisit.

Super trippy. The effect from the reverted drums and and the soaring brass (at least what sounds like brass but I'm not sure it's not another instrument that is reverted). The little xylophone like lines are very tasty little subtle touches. These vocal samples are perfect! What a fantastic journey! Loved it!

Kedbreak136 wrote:

Super trippy. The effect from the reverted drums and and the soaring brass (at least what sounds like brass but I'm not sure it's not another instrument that is reverted). The little xylophone like lines are very tasty little subtle touches. These vocal samples are perfect! What a fantastic journey! Loved it!

No brass but I do have some reversed vocals with a lot of effects on them.  That might be what you're hearing.  Or a synth sound.  I can't match you on crazy/cool vocal samples, but it was fun playing around with them!

Really cool idea with the reamped drums and AI voices.  This has trippy vibes that remind me of the hidden track on albums.  Wait through the few mins of silence and then go on this trip yikes  The bassline totally drives this too.  Awesome squelchy sounds too!

What Inez said!  Haha.

I haven't seen the AI voice stuff to play with.  Might have to take a peek.  Great to hear your sonic experiment!

Tone Matrix wrote:

Really cool idea with the reamped drums and AI voices.  This has trippy vibes that remind me of the hidden track on albums.  Wait through the few mins of silence and then go on this trip yikes  The bassline totally drives this too.  Awesome squelchy sounds too!

Maybe I'll have to make this a hidden track when I release another album... Thanks for the suggestion!



rdomain wrote:

What Inez said!  Haha.

I haven't seen the AI voice stuff to play with.  Might have to take a peek.  Great to hear your sonic experiment!

It looks like there are a few different AI voice generators online.  I tried out murf.ai for this one.  You can try out a few voices for free but I guess you have to pay to unlock their full library of voices.  But it was still fun to play around with the free samples and I was impressed with how well it did at reading the various silly phrases I typed in for it.


emily wrote:


It's like a literal gif interpretation.  Love it.

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