Microsoft's Songsmith

[Dog--]

Quiet the interesting sounding little program, downloading the trial now, will post some shit when I get some up. Whatever you end up making with it, just post it all here, I guess.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/index.html

What it does is let you record yourself singing/playing and creates background tracks based on what you play using piano/drums/etc.

 

[Vegeta897]

Sounds like the noobiest thing I've ever heard of, and if it doesn't have MIDI input I'm going to rape you.

 

[Dog--]

Yea, it's nooby, but still sounds like phun.

 

[Dog--]

oh lol, this is the worst thing ever.. I was expecting it to let you record something, then generate shit over that.. It just plays some generic shit and you play over that.

wow.

 

[Vegeta897]

Oh my god that video makes me want to stab out my eyes and ears.

It's ****ing worse than I actually expected. It's a little kid's game.

Sliders for "Happy" and "Jazzy"? What in the shit

This is worse than that stupid d-beam music composing shit.

Like this would make a decent April Fool's joke for Microsoft.

 

[Dog--]

lol, I thought this would be a million times better. It's kinda funny really how terrible it is.

 

[Vegeta897]

The forums make me laugh.

"I can't tell you how happy we are that you want to share the Songsmith music-making experience with your daughter... so please send us some of the songs that you and your family create..."

Creepy.

And this other guy touting himself as a "pro" because he uses Band in a Box.

Oh many lols.

 

[Dinkleberry]

I hear Neil Peart swears by this program.

 

[Krynn72]

Quite

 

[Absinthe]

What the **** is this supposed to be for?

I clicked this and was thinking "FOCK YEAH GENERATIVE SHIZ RAWK".

 

[hungryduck]

is this microsoft's response to apple's garageband or something?

holy ****.