Lips details, Lips facts and Lips love Options

[Xbox-Scene]

Lips details, Lips facts and Lips love Posted by XanTium | July 19 23:13 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From xbox360fanboy.com: [QUOTE] In a sit down discussion with developer iNiS's Keiichi Yano, the chief creative officer for karaoke game Lips, Joystiq learned quite the factual load of Lips information. Informative highlights including mention that Lips will support both the Zune and iPod but will not use DRM'ed music, the microphone is in fact dongle'less, every song included will be a master track and feature the original music video and game scoring will be enabled with all custom tracks. [/QUOTE] Full Story: xbox360fanboy.com

[HackerSupreme]

I will be the first one to buy one of those...NOT

[mr_spoon]

he's me thinking Lips was a escort service M$ was going to be offering on live....


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[sabbath_dude]

I'm still surprised they actually called it Lips. It just sounds wrong .

[batman91]

when htey say "support music from zune/ipod" does that mean that you could make custom ones with the video, musics and lyrics? or ill it jsut strip the voice from the song and let you kareoke to it? becasue that was the main issue my family had with singstar. one you've done it a couple tines, the songs get boring...

[trentdadi]

I read somewhere that it actually can strip the voice from your songs. I have no idea how that is even possible though.

[Elemino]

That's what most karaoke machines do from what I understand... Ive never used one personally. Nero also claims to be able to do the same.

[Martinchris23]

Voice cancel software relies on the vocals to be at a certain frequency (usually higher than most other sounds in a song), then cuts anything at that level out of the song. Sometimes it works well, but most of the time the song itself sounds wrong as they'll be other things in that frequency which give it depth.

[ssj4android]

Wait a minute, it will only be able to get music off a Zune or an iPod? What about my Zen?
And, from what I've seen of it, the singing interface looks like a Singstar clone. I like the Karaoke Revolution interface (which is the same as Rock Band, minus the stupid rhythm and talkie sections) better.

[dokworm]

Voice cancel software relies on the vocals to be at a certain frequency (usually higher than most other sounds in a song), then cuts anything at that level out of the song. Sometimes it works well, but most of the time the song itself sounds wrong as they'll be other things in that frequency which give it depth.

The tech is a bit more mature these days.
It has an algorithm that looks at a multitude of things. One is that for many songs vocals tend to be equally in both channels whereas instruments do not., (this allows you to do phase change cancellation, leaving the instruments untouched), advanced software uses ffts and wavelet analysis to work out what is vocal and what is not and cancel it out.
The stuff that happens 'on the fly' isn't as good as the process offline code, I m hopeful that they use a good algorithm and you rip your songs to the hard-drive to be processed offline more thoroughly.