This is a good point actually. The tech involved in actually getting this to work is pretty cool. Even if ultimately all they’ve done is make a reverse Karaoke machine…
I tend to agree, though they really do need to work on the adverts - I don’t think any music orientated teenagers would regard the product as remotely cool after that ad.
My real worry is that it becomes part of a homogenising process, where, no matter how interesting your tune/line, is has to be forced into one of the programmed genres, and then fitted to the grooves/templates provided.
The concept is good, though. Has anyone any experience with the French software that provides music to match your choices/moods?
I think too, that much of what is needed is already out there. The tune acquisition part has been kicking around the software world since the sixties, (Peter Zinovieff showed something that did this at the famous Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition at the London ICA in 1968. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic_Serendipity). I think a wrapper could be built for a Linux workstation, aor a plug-in for some of the systems.
But if it gets one kid, to make a choice to make music, then I guess it’s done it’s job.
It’s the same as when some crap pop music comes on the radio and you start wondering how hey made certain sounds and realise there’s maybe a good bassline hidden away in there and the production is quite good… Suddenly you could start app recaiting Britney Spears… ???
Um… There is nothing inherently good or bad about pop music. It’s just what it is, “popular”. The goodness or badness are totally separate from that, and also subjective qualities. So don’t feel bad for liking a pop track.
LOL… there hasn’t being a pop track i’ve “liked” for a long time. I can appreciate how any piece of music is put together and techniques used.
Does anybody remember the omnichord? IIRC it does a similar thing to the microsoft software mentioned but for a melody, not your voice. you strum the medody in and then it adds backing to your creation. Sounds very cheesy though. I am tempted to get one though as they look cool, have good bemding possibilites and a lot of it could be adapted for use in other projects.
it s rather difficult to be politically correct when you are in front of a pile of hot, stinky, humid, bubbling crap
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RIAA hasn t been politically correct with you for decades so you don t need to be politically correct with them. Popular music is not what the people like better but what the RIAA has decided that people have to like
Jimmie, that remembers me of when i lived in Norway and one day they told me that one of my friends was in the hospital. I ve found her wearing a plastic dish (birthday party style) in her head wrapped around with a bath towel to “keep people from reading her mind”. I also remember that the most alternative music she had in her car was Depeche Mode and that she owned a Jean Michelle Jarret concert in VHS, with fireworks ‘n’ all. (I watched that stupid tape while dead mooses heads were watching at me in a lonesome red carpeted hunting hut in the middle of about nowhere, center Norway). That all to demonstrates my theory is just right.
Um… There is nothing inherently good or bad about pop music. It’s just what it is, “popular”. The goodness or badness are totally separate from that, and also subjective qualities. So don’t feel bad for liking a pop track.
I dunno. I’d say that exploiting an artist and their artform (or anything else) purely for monetary profit, worse yet, doing so based on your ability to brainwash a bunch of people with clever/expensive marketing, which is paid for by those very same people… And lock them up if they try to get it for a reasonable rate… Sounds fairly “bad” to me. Sounds like an insane conspiracy theory, I’d be skeptical had I not seen it with my own eyes…
*clicks bugfight’s link* I better read this before I post that hah.
LOL /me orders three.
But Britney’s production has been pretty slick. Bad ethics and good form can coexist quite well together. Actually, the latter is what enables people to get away with the former
I watched that stupid tape while dead mooses heads were watching at me in a lonesome red carpeted hunting hut in the middle of about nowhere, center Norway
Was it called “The Overlook hotel” by any chance? Sounds scary already.
eg.: how to make sure you get the MOST out of your 6 chnanel delta sigma codec + 0.1 usd 4580 opamps!! Wonder if guy ever heard of noiseshaping or how it goes, eventually .
read fanboi comments, funny:
-This thing puts Kenton to grave !!1! (along with their 16bit r2r , sure thing…)
-Shame on you RME !!11!!one (for building textbook converters and not sparing out DC blocking , sure thing…)
I dunno. I’d say that exploiting an artist and their artform (or anything else) purely for monetary profit, worse yet, doing so based on your ability to brainwash a bunch of people with clever/expensive marketing, which is paid for by those very same people… And lock them up if they try to get it for a reasonable rate… Sounds fairly “bad” to me. Sounds like an insane conspiracy theory, I’d be skeptical had I not seen it with my own eyes…
But Britney’s production has been pretty slick. Bad ethics and good form can coexist quite well together. Actually, the latter is what enables people to get away with the former
All I said was it’s not an issue to like the music, if it happens to be good. Don’t get me started on the music industry…
There is nothing inherently good or bad about pop music. It’s just what it is, “popular”. The goodness or badness are totally separate from that, and also subjective qualities.
Besides, why the separation between the industry and the music? Pop music… well… wouldn’t be, if there were no industry.
Just got through a whole heap of these on youtube. “Wonderwall” as techno, and I can’t really describe “Enter Songsmith”… Well it may not make the greatest music, but it’s given us a whole new game.
this time for THE MAC!!