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Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from the desire to democratize music creation. We saw a gap where many people, especially youth, had a passion for making music but lacked the resources, knowledge, or time to learn traditional instruments and complex DAW software. We wanted to create a solution that makes music creation accessible and enjoyable for everyone, allowing them to express their musical ideas quickly and easily.
## What it does
IHUM is an AI application that converts artists' vocals or hums into MIDI instruments. It simplifies the music creation process by allowing users to record their vocal melodies and transform them into instrumental tracks with preset instruments. This enables users to create complex musical pieces without needing to know how to play an instrument or use a DAW.
How we built it
For the frontend, we used HTML, CSS and React JS to develop IHUM. Using React JS and its libraries such as Pitchy, we were able to process, change, and output the sound waves of audio inputs. For the backend, we used Auth0's API to create a login/signup system, which stores and verifies user emails and passwords.
Challenges we ran into
One of the main challenges we faced was ensuring the AI's accuracy in interpreting vocal inputs and converting them into MIDI data that sounds natural and musical. Furthermore, the instruments that we converted had a ton of issues in how it sounds, especially regarding pitch, tone, etc. However, we were able to pull and troubleshoot through our way through most of them.
## Accomplishments that we're proud of
Through all the hours of hard work and effort, an accomplishment we are extremely proud of is the fact that our program is able to process the audio. By using Pitchy JS, we were able to change the audio to fit how we want it to sound. On top of this, we are also proud that we were able to implement a fully working login/signup system using Auth0's API and integrate it within the program.
What we learned
As this was our first time working with audio in web development and many of our group's first hackathons, we faced many issues that we had to overcome and learn from. From processing to setting up APIs to modifying the sound waves, it definitely provided us valuable insight and expanded our skillsets.
What's next for IHUM
Our future updates allow running multiple audio samples simultaneously and increasing our instrument libraries. By doing so, IHUM can essentially be a simple and easy-to-use DAW which permits the user to create entire beats out of their voice on our web application.
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