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Songsmith - I'M SINGING WITH MY LAPTOP
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"WHAT ARE YOU DOING..LISA...I'VE NEVER HEARD YOU SING?" his facial expressions, jesus christ.
auto-tune to the max with the girl though
why is microsoft using a macbook pro in their commercial for a microsoft product?
Oh that's the best plan ever.
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It's happened before, and with stuff like Bootcamp and Office for Macs they're not exactly enemies
Well, a Mac running Windows is still a Windows sale, but they have a fine line to walk in terms of tapping into the Mac market to make money (and not look like such a monopoly) and running the risk or eroding their main consumer base for Windows.
Microsoft's relationship with Apple is extremely uneasy at best. Their employees, however, have always seemed to love them some Apple laptops, even before the Intel switch.
http://www.houndbite.com/?houndbite=6719
the end was improvised,sorry if it's bad.
Wow, that guy is class.
It's the kind of thing that could do wonders in the right hands, and terrible yet awesome things in the wrong hands.
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Damnit I loved that.
Quality's a little poor... they need to add an mp3 import function.
http://www.houndbite.com/?houndbite=6724
Its really easy. Just do this:
Go to your sound mixer and mute everything but say, WMP. This includes Songsmith.
Then set your recording device to your Stereo Mix, so that your recording any sounds that come out of your sound card.
Then load up your MP3 in WMP, and press play when Songsmith says SING.
There ya go, you just put an MP3 in to Songsmith.
I reckon songsmith actually improved that. But even the power of songsmith was unable to actually make it not awful.
http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna
Shit even Autotune would be wonderful. I think Antares could throw together a pretty compelling demo...
Holy crap that software looks awesome. Almost as awesome as the inventors facial forest.
Think about it: you could take any CD you own, pop it into the software, and then with a little work (it already seems to do some MIDI work, so I'd imagine there's an export to MIDI option) generate full sheet music with separate instrument parts written out.
Like any sufficiently advanced technology, it appears to be magic, but I'm guessing it's just a whole lot of filters and fourier transforms. The biggest challenge will be getting it to not slaughter the machine you're using.
Melodyne is not a real time program. As long as you have enough RAM, which an Eee should, it will run. What I'm talking about is incredibly long processing times, etc. Let me know how it works out.
I'm sure the initial processing would take a while on a really long audio file, but the actual pitch correction should be fairly instantaneous on any machine. I bet it'd work fine on an EeePC as long as you weren't expecting miracles.
There's a pretty big push in the pro-sumer audio recording / production realm to move to lighter machines. The EeePC is pretty popular as I understand, especially with live shows (low footprint!). I'm actually looking into that little Lenovo myself, since the expresscard slot means that my audio interface can play along too.
I've been summarily impressed with Melodyne products in the past and I'm willing to wager that Melodyne 2.0 works just about as well as they say it does. Snake-oil does not come to mind when I think of their products - but DAMN 2.0 could really change everything. Sample-based music might never be the same. If the price follows their other products, it'll be reasonable as well (I believe the current gen Melodyne plugin is less than $250, which barely buys you a good reverb plugin these days).
But seriously, making musical samples out of non-musical audio clips and putting them into this stupid god-forsaken Microsoft product would make me really happy.
What's funny is that the original piece is actually just waaaaaaaay over your head
Without going to far out on a limb I bet that some of your favorite music contains samples of other artists work - or at least sampled instruments (synthesized instruments or what-have-you). Technology is helping music, not killing it - there are more talented people putting out albums in their parents garages than ever before balancing out the strippers trying to make "break out albums" whose sessions I had to assist on. Autotune, Melodyne, whatever - it can't save you if you don't have it. I hear a new good band every week, and I'm positive that's because it's getting easier and easier for people to make, record and distribute music. There are people who probably said that recorded music was killing music, because it would make the live show obsolete and turn everything into a mechanical mess. I'm sure some people felt that photography would replace painting and that it was bastardizing the visual arts.
My issue with this Microsoft product isn't that the idea is wrong, it's that all it can do is make the demo song from the Casio keyboard your parents bought you as a kid. It's bad software trying to do a good thing - there's nothing wrong with enabling more people to express themselves creatively. Besides, their concept was a "musical scratch pad" anyway, which I think is a great idea, in theory, but Garage Band did this years ago in a MUCH better way.
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