Microsoft: the end of music

marfal66

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Microsoft got something new: Songsmith. You sing in the microphone while songsmith creates a backing track that matches your melody, rythem etc under the conditions you set (kind of beats). Just sing, and you get the most wonderful music along with it.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E&feature=channel_page[/ame]
I'd think this is a parody, but it seems it isn't.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/business/25digi.html?_r=1&ref=business

:erk:
 
Well it's not "the end of music" at all. That's like saying default settings on a computer = "omgz teh end of customization". Calm down.
 
I'm definetely going to throw some death growls at that.
 
I guess I now know why the national songcontest (mgp - don't remember what it is in england) sucked so much this year...
 
This looks awesome, I'm totally trying it :lol:

P.S. Agreed with swabs.
Apparently shitty commercial jingles from the 50s will be the end of music.
 
IMO myspace has fasten a lot the end of music. Tons of kids that don't even have a song, put out a myspace page, take artisy pics, get 89347583274 friends, and only after the'll consider writting a music, put 1-3 songs, and thinking is something original, innovative, and that it totally rocks, wen it's in fact PURE AIDS!
 
Actually, that's the BEGINNING of music. Today, most music is mass-produced, this will force people into making songs that 'do not sound like songsmith' :p