🎛️Remix

Take a track or upload and give it a fresh interpretation!

Remix is accessed through the Create menu through the triple period ... or alternatively if on desktop, hovering over a song will reveal the yellow Remix button:

When selected, you will get a screen similar to this:

Lots to explore here! Let's go through it piece by piece, especially where it differs!

Remixing a Song

There are a few parts in the process of Remixing, let's take a look:

Firstly the top of the screen has a Core Prompt Box which behaves identically to those in the Create pages. See Core Prompt Box for details if you need reminding.

Next up is selecting which part of our song to remix and how varied we want the remix to be:

You can remix either 32 seconds or 130 seconds of a song. You can remix 130s of a shorter track too, but the surplus will simply produce silence. This CAN be useful for certain advanced techniques.

Firstly, selecting a Remix section and duration. You can remix either 32 or 130 seconds, and whichever you pick will produce a clip of identical length, based upon that specific section of the song you have moved the yellow highlight (see above) onto. Unlike trim and and crop and extend, you cannot shrink this box, it will always be exactly 32 or 130 seconds. Pick carefully as your remix will be based on only the song contents within the yellow field.

Next up is Variance, this is a somewhat slider ranging from 0.1 variance to 1 variance. 1 means the remix will completely different, 0.1 means it will be almost identical to the original.

The fun part: playing with the variances. There's a lot to be said for experimenting with different setting to find the right balance of sameness, but also freshness. Below is a list of things that can be "kept" from the old clip IF the variance is low enough:

• Vocalist

• Instruments and tone

• Melodies and rhythm

When operating at low sliders, many of the changes you get will be subtle, such as backing instruments or little flourishes, perhaps an aspect of vocal delivery. As you slide it higher more of this will change, perhaps the vocalist changes, or the melody is different. There are no hard and fast rules to this and it's somewhat random. Sometimes for example a 0.25 variance will lose the original vocalist, other times it will not.

The main boon of Remix compared to Styles is it keeps the melody when you work at lower variances. This means it can be a powerful tool to make covers of old songs, remakes and so on, with some changes.

It can be used as a replication tool (vocalist and soundscape) but generally speaking the amount of variance you must use to get a fresh melody is usually high enough it will also frequently kill off or change the vocalist. There are better methods to use for vocalist replication which are more reliable, quicker and less credit-intensive. See the Knowledgebase for information on this.

Beyond this the tolls and sections are identical to Create. Below the variance is the Lyrics Box. You'll type lyrics here. Make sure they match the clip exactly if you want a lyrical match. If you want to change them, you can alter them here, but bear in mind you'll usually have to up the variation somewhat for it to take effect. When trying to change sections of lyrics using low variance, you tend to get a mixture of the new lyrics and the old ones being blurred together.

Finally are Advanced Controls, these are no different to those explained in the core section: Advanced Controls

Upscaling and Model Switching

Remix can be used to move songs into new models.

Let's say you have a song you created in 1.0. You can remix the first 130 seconds of this song and choose to remix it in either 1.5 or Allegro. This will "move the song over" to the new model. If you use minimal variance, it's essentially no changes beyond the model shift (which will produce some audible changes in how instruments sound).

Play around with this. It seems to be the case especially that remixing songs made in 1.0 into Allegro keeps a lot of the characteristic flair of 1.0 in terms of vocal styles and instrument sounds, but it "pumps up" things like the percussion and bass.

Some users will use the ability to "model switch" with remix to build a song in one model up to 130 seconds, and then remix it; then continuing and finishing the song in the new model.

Remix can also be used as a "tidy and check" tool, if you have built a song to 130 seconds. Remix a few copies of it at low variance and see if you like any of them better than the original one you have. Sometimes Remix will "add a little polish" because it generates the clip as one single entity rather than being built from multiple 32 second clips, smoothin transitions a bit. The difference won't be as pronounced (if at all) if you're remixing an original 130 second track (one could also argue it's pointless, you could just generate another one if you're not sure about your current one, unless it has a melodic aspect you want to keep of course).