The thing that excites me most about technology is when it makes impossible things possible – like 3D baby ultrasounds or giving me sixpack ab muscles. While i’m still waiting on that one, let me share this:

It took me the whole video to figure out the voiceover guy was saying “MIDI”, and not “meaty”. Anyway, Direct Note Access is a feature of a sound software plugin called Melodyne. It takes an audio waveform and splits it up so that you’re viewing individual notes more like musical notation than technical scribbles. That’s cool enough already.

Now buckle up: the plugin takes a single chord and separates the notes inside so they can be tweaked individually. So if you have a major chord played in the standard format, you can tweak that middle note down so the chord becomes minor. This isn’t MIDI (or “meaty”) – it’s on a live recording.

Can i get a “holy crap”? If you’re not a musician or someone who works with audio, this might be lost on you. But trust me when i say this is huuuge.

What’s in it for you? Well, more money-minded fathers can buy plastic surgery for their little girls and pimp them out as recording artists, using this software to correct their music so that it sounds like they can sing and play an instrument.

That’s what i’m planning to do with the software, anyway, but my daughter’s a little green. Is 2 years old too young for a boob job?

Ryan Henson Creighton is a Toronto-based game developer, and founder of Untold Entertainment Inc., specializing in online games for kids, teens, tweens and preschoolers.

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