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Dear Cohost, I would like to introduce you to @schplict, one of my works/projects I am the most proud of.

Posts one screencap a day. From 2017 to 2021 we ran a rewatch podcast of Star Trek: Voyager. I took screencaps, and added captions. This bot will repost the whole (re-edited) run, chronologically!

Thanks to @Lizstar for the motivation via her wonderful #Lizstartrek posts + thanks to @vectorpoem for his excellent bots where I glanced some code!

this music is not good to listen to per se but it is an interesting experiment I did:

1. obtain audio of Ozolini, a Latvian folk song I am obsessed with
2. use mvsep to split the audio into vocals and instruments, which actually worked really well
3. independently run these tracks through the mp3 to midi converter that spotify has on their website for some reason (there are other utilities based on it)
4. slap some synth instruments that I can only describe as "vague and blurry" onto the midis in logic pro to cover up the inherent jitteriness of automatic conversion
5. perfect. flawless. this is music

The mp3-to-midi note conversion is more pitch accurate in some places than others but on the whole it's "definitely better than what was available the last time I tried to do this like 10-15 years ago". The only adjustments I made to the midi data was to trim the percussive opening of the song and delete a few obvious very high-pitched strays, I did not manually fix the timing or pitch of anything.

this reminded me of the outro for our podcast i made, one of those "oh it's just experimental b.s. but i unexpectedly really like listening to it"

1. ripped Star Trek: Discovery Intro How To Play¹ video from YT
2. convert to midi. I think I used waon.
3. arrange in ardour, naively so: I think I "separated" the track into "instrument" and "percussion" by deleting half of the notes? There's a third track. They're all "rendered" by Calf Fluidsynth. Sorry for lack of proper "vocabulary".
4. perfect. flawless. this is music

¹ I had tried converting the real/full intro, ripped from Netflix, but the midi became a mess.