My sister sent me a video of my 7 month-old niece last month singing and humming. I not only thought it was the cutest thing, but I also found it very musical. So like any musically-inclined uncle would do, I sampled it!
I made a downtempo track around her vocalizations, and even though I used some Melodyne to correct the pitch, it didn't alter the original audio very much! She pretty much stayed within the key of Db Major all on her own. Her vocalizations even stayed close to the 80 BPM tempo of my track. I didn't have to do any time-stretching on her voice at all. She's not even a year old and she's not just a recording artist, but a songwriter as well (she shares songwriting credit on this one).
This song was recorded using Sonar X3 Producer, using mostly Korg Legacy Collection plugins (Wavestation and MonoPoly) and Dimension Pro (the harp countermelody). The drum loop was one of those bundled loops that came with Sonar.
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