Tell you what, that programmer had a lot of time on his hands.
This might be useful for people who do the music for chewing gum commercials.

Do you guys ever just tell someone they suck? You fuckin suck! try that part again, and suck less this time.

Brian Madigan wrote:Tell you what, that programmer had a lot of time on his hands.
This might be useful for people who do the music for chewing gum commercials.

Do you guys ever just tell someone they suck? You fuckin suck! try that part again, and suck less this time.

It is an interesting engineering challenge though. I wish the technology had been developed at some place like ccrma or the MIT media lab. Then instead of a plugin optimized for improving chewing gum commercials(and probably set up in such a way as to be a huge pain in the ass to use it for anything interesting) you would have a paper detailing the technique, and an easier path towards using it for something the original author hadn't even thought of.

Brian Madigan wrote:Tell you what, that programmer had a lot of time on his hands.
This might be useful for people who do the music for chewing gum commercials.

Do you guys ever just tell someone they suck? You fuckin suck! try that part again, and suck less this time.

Sure, if I want them to storm out without paying.

Leave it to the Germans to develop such a diabolical device to suck the soul out of music.

Like those goddamn Neumann mics! SOULLESS!

[quote="Colonel Panic"]Leave it to the Germans to develop such a diabolical device to suck the soul out of music.[/quote

Nina Hagen?

I can just imagine some kid sitting at his computer desk fucking with this for hours to fix a guitar part he could just replay and fix in 30 seconds...

I was reading this: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2005/03/braincomputer-i.php

Its amazing where technology can lead us. But who wants to see a rock concert with 3 guys or girls sitting in chairs wearing caps on their heads?

There are positive applications for this and all audio technology, but just because we can ... should we?

this is amazing. truly fucking amazing. would be really curious to hear how well it works with legato performing, or held notes underneath a melody, or sostenuto pedal, etc...

going to have to play with this one for a good long while when it hits the boards. seems like a great way to rewrite sample material, among other things...

I don't get it why people freak out because of tools such as this. Like every single thing in this world, you can use it for good things and bad things.
Lots of musicians aren't into the attitude of "documenting a performance", lots of bands use the studio as an instrument and they can use this tool as an instrument, they can sample choirs and tweak the hell out of them, they can alter their own parts or other people parts. It's just another way to be creative and experimental. I see nothing wrong with that. I see nothing wrong with documenting a performance as well.

I also think it's lame when someone doesn't practice and give whatever performance that can be fixed later on. I don't like this kind of art, when one doesn't care about how well he/she is going to sing, as long as it's going to be fixed later. I do like it though when one is giving out a certain performance and thinks "Ha! I can turn into completely something else!" for art's sake and not for perfection's sake.

Freaking out because of tools like that is like freaking out because of people making butchers' knives - someone might use it to kill, no?
It's all about the good use and the bad use of these tools.

Some guy who went on a date with Brendan Canty's sister wrote:Is it true they don't believe in heat?

I can use a hammer to hammer nails or to murder someone who looks at me funny. It's still a good tool to have for those that need that sort of thing.