With the availability of cheap streaming services, artists have not been getting paid reasonable amounts for their music.
To help with this problem, the next version of Gig Performer, coming real soon now, will include a new AI based plugin to detect what song you are performing. It then uses your credit card information to make royalty payments directly to the composer of the song you’re playing.
The plugin, based on Shazam, listens to your performance and does its best to detect what song you’re playing.
Like other plugins, the Shazam plugin exposes several parameters that can be controlled by Gig Performer widgets in the usual manner.
Nuance (1…5)
This parameter allows you to control the recognition algorithm and is particularly important for pop music where many songs sound exactly the same and only tiny changes distinguish one song for another.
White noise detection (On/Off)
When turned on, if the plugin detects a sufficient amount of white noise coming from your synth, it will assume that you’re playing prog metal and will distribute royalties equally between all prog metal bands as there’s no other way to determine precisely what song you’re playing (the Nuance parameter is ignored when this parameter is turned on)
Mistakes (0…10)
This parameter does its best to determine how well the song is being played and if you make too many mistakes, it will assume you are still rehearsing the song and no royalties are due. However, if you play the song more than 10 times, the algorithm will assume you can’t play it properly and will start paying royalties anyway.
The “bypass” parameter for this plugin is of course disabled.
The plugin will automatically check if the particular song is in the public domain in which case no royalties are due.
Upon installation, you will be asked to provide your children’s credit card information.
Attempts to thwart the system will be detected and in the event of misuse, all plugins will immediately begin to sound like bagpipes.
Maybe there should also be a plugin doing the other side of the royalties: When I play an original non-registered piece of music, it would register the patterns, so that when somebody else plays just the same pattern, he/she will automatically pay for using it.
Is there a GP script support, so that we can change the “10 mistakes” parameter to recognize it as “Jazz” and automatically make it pay into a Jazz-musicians royalty pool?
Could keyboardists rather give the credit cards of their guitarists as it is well known that keyboardists, who always play perfectly from the first rehearsal, have to play the same piece over and over again during rehearsal, because of their guitarists who haven’t practiced enough at home.
Feature request to make micro-payments per discrete sustained frequency in the audio output from Gig Performer, particularly to large foreign media holding companies.
This feature will be particularly welcomed by the music licensing agencies because it will let them better keep pace with the growing problem of unlicensed re-use of frequencies that match in their recordings catalogue.
only originals here…