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Topic: Another Jane Austen Musical video

I finished Pride and Prejudice.  It has 15 original songs.  Parts of this was hard work, the rest was a great deal of fun.
I came to think of the artificial intelligence that created the music from my lyric as a partner -- a collaborator -- every day was a new adventure.  I hope, in the end, we came up with something entertaining.

The length is a problem but I'm doing an entire book.  When you think about it, 70 minutes to do an entire novel is actually good.  I'm thinking that the troop of singers and dancers that you see on a Cunard Cruise Ship is the place for a piece like this. 

I'd love to hear what others think, good or bad. Be blunt. Let me have it straight.

https://youtu.be/3bGyMl4dbsM

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Re: Another Jane Austen Musical video

Hi Paul,

I've watched about half so far. It is much better with Jane looking at me while she talks! As I said before, it would be great to see the characters, at least the singers, on stage, even if static. But is is very good and enjoyable.

And no Youtube commercials so far!

Geoff

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pberk wrote:

I'd love to hear what others think, good or bad. Be blunt. Let me have it straight.

Putting it as bluntly as I can, Paul, it’s even better than the previous one, and you set a pretty high bar with that. The one thing that particularly struck me was that in their discussion just after the one-hour mark Lizzy and Lady Catherine sounded indistinguishable, but I don’t know whether the software you used offers you any control over such things.

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Re: Another Jane Austen Musical video

Alfred wrote:
pberk wrote:

I'd love to hear what others think, good or bad. Be blunt. Let me have it straight.

Putting it as bluntly as I can, Paul, it’s even better than the previous one, and you set a pretty high bar with that. The one thing that particularly struck me was that in their discussion just after the one-hour mark Lizzy and Lady Catherine sounded indistinguishable, but I don’t know whether the software you used offers you any control over such things.

Alfred, sorry took so long to reply.  I've been traveling. 

You guessed it.  The suno.com software is very poor with duets and does not offer a definite way to do them.  It's sort of hit and miss.  What I went with was the best version.   

You can do duets but it is very tricky.  I could have done better with Lady Catherine and Elizabeth.  But the point of the song does get across, so I left it as it was.  It's an improvement opportunity for me and for suno.com.

Thanks for the comment.

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Re: Another Jane Austen Musical video

GB wrote:

Hi Paul,

I've watched about half so far. It is much better with Jane looking at me while she talks! As I said before, it would be great to see the characters, at least the singers, on stage, even if static. But is is very good and enjoyable.

And no Youtube commercials so far!

Geoff

Thanks Geoff ... I have thought about using visuals of characters "on stage" .. who knows?  --- maybe I'll attempt it.

Thanks!

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Re: Another Jane Austen Musical video

pberk wrote:
Alfred wrote:
pberk wrote:

I'd love to hear what others think, good or bad. Be blunt. Let me have it straight.

Putting it as bluntly as I can, Paul, it’s even better than the previous one, and you set a pretty high bar with that. The one thing that particularly struck me was that in their discussion just after the one-hour mark Lizzy and Lady Catherine sounded indistinguishable, but I don’t know whether the software you used offers you any control over such things.

Alfred, sorry took so long to reply.  I've been traveling. 

You guessed it.  The suno.com software is very poor with duets and does not offer a definite way to do them.  It's sort of hit and miss.  What I went with was the best version.   

You can do duets but it is very tricky.  I could have done better with Lady Catherine and Elizabeth.  But the point of the song does get across, so I left it as it was.  It's an improvement opportunity for me and for suno.com.

HUGE Thanks for the comment.