Eventide’s Mood is a plug-in that characterizes the emotional content of music. Mood analyzes music playing in your DAW. It inspects the key, spectral content, tempo, dynamics and additional aspects to create a set of “descriptors” that are then compared to a database of information collected from people listening to and rating pop songs.
Mood displays, in real time, the relative intensity of four emotions: angry, calm, happy and sad. The intensity of these emotions can be used as output as MIDI data and oscillator frequencies—useful for example, to control the brightness and color of lights on stage or in a dance club.
The Mood database is compiled by asking people to listen to songs that make them “feel” a certain way. The algorithm then analyzes these rated songs to determine those characteristics involved in eliciting specific emotions. This process creates the descriptors that can then be used to analyze other songs.
Mood encourages interaction by all users with an included link that makes it easy to give Eventide feedback as to which songs fool Mood’s algorithm. Mood is available for immediate download at no cost for a 90-day trial period.
Barry Rudolph is a recording engineer/mixer who has worked on over 30 gold and platinum records. He has recorded and/or mixed Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hall & Oates, Pat Benatar, Rod Stewart, the Corrs, and more. Barry has his own futuristic music mixing facility and loves teaching audio engineering at Musician’s Institute, Hollywood, CA. He is a lifetime Grammy-voting member of NARAS and a contributing editor for Mix Magazine. http://barryrudolph.com
