Sony won't let you post "crap recordings" of a few seconds of your own Beethoven piano performance

[mr_raccoon]

Those audio copyright bots are pretty damn stupid in general. I brought that point up back in the summer when a SoundCloud bot mistakenly pulled an Ariana Grande acapella cover made entirely with an realistic singing synth

Realistic singing synth might have fooled SoundCloud into thinking Ariana Grande cover is the original & got pulled off site

Last week a new singing synthesis program called Synthesizer V was released as a technical preview (https://www.vocaloidnews.net/synthesizer-v-technical-preview-available-now/). One of it’s main advantages it has over industry leader Vocaloid (made by Yamaha) is that it produces a significantly more coherent and clearing sounding english singing voice. So clear and realistic, that SoundCloud’s automated copyright detection thought an acapella Ariana Grande cover made with it was the original ve…