Jeebers says:

The concept of the application is pretty cool. Knowing Microsoft though I’m sure it doesn’t work as expected. A love ballad probably turns into a BSOD medly. Infomercial is not great but it’s not horrible either, at least for its target audience.

RASTERMAN says:

#9 (Troublemaker): Good catch, it is a Mac laptop! How embarrassing for the Mac community…

I guess we’ve got one more good reason NOT to install Windows on Apple equipment.

Cheers!

—RASTER

pedro says:

#41 Or was it that MS spent topo much time under the radar that they couldn’t help but crap themselves.

Next up to hear in that app: Gansta rap.

Paddy-O says:

# 43 pedro said, “Boy, yanked like bad yard weed. Still, I can appreciate that yanking. T’was like the ultimate reality distortion reaction: make as if it never happened.”

Yep, same thing Obama is trying to do.

Miguel says:

I saw it all the way through. But hey, I’m unemployed, I can sleep late tomorrow.

pedro says:

$46 Maybe the creepy Japanese cat ate the story.

Seriously though, I think the dissapearance of that story was an honest mistake.

Mr. Fusion says:

As usual, Cow-Paddy, Ignorant Shit Talking Sociopath and Pedro the *A*hole have nothing to add except their own shit.

towelie says:

“Don’t forget to bring a towel!”

Anybody wanna get high?

Common_Sense says:

I gotta say, I’m not a hater. I mean, I’m not a lover of this either, cause I could give a **** about making music, and of course it isn’t a polished product even if I were.

The concept is very interesting. I know lots of young kids who would get a kick out of it just as entertainment – some who already just record themselves singing. Why not one more step? I can see this working as a toy.

Might be value as a mock-up tool too. Sometimes when I write, the hardest thing to do is get the first paragraph. Once you have something, editing it to what you really want is easy. This might work in that way for someone. If the output could create some sheet music or export to some other editor to do electronic sound editing to offer some more options…

The awful DLR song? Terrible, but don’t forget that there are lots of options even just displayed, and who knows what got picked. Plus, listen to that raw audio track, and tell me that “style” (if I can call it that) is not about the worst example input to feed something like this.

One last comment on the concept: Can anyone out there REALLY tell me that the human equivalent of this automated mixing isn’t pretty much what most crappy pop music is done with? The technology will be able to make Brittany Spears music pretty soon. The dance choreographer is the only real artist there…

As for the ad? Well, that sucked, and even my objective/dispassionate side can’t defend it.

pedro says:

what was yanked was that beloved “change” of yours.