well I'm not sure I agree that this equates directly with that analogy because clearly Gates was missing the point, but I see your pointvicz wrote: I guess people are either with Gates or Ellison on this one
I know I guy who was doing his PhD on something similar - but his idea was to do polyphonic tracking to the extent that you can play an instrument and the computer will follow along - from an academic point of view the idea is really interesting
All I'm saying in this example is, I could possibly imagine a situation where it could be useful - such as if I maybe write a song on the guitar, but want to do an electronic version that doesn't even use guitar - like say you want some kinds of esoteric pads or strings or something where you just want it straight - all the same velocities/note lengths etc etc etc and so all you need is all the chords
the thought of being able to just sing in your melody and have it put the chords behind it so that it's already in your sequencer and you only need to tweak it and change the sounds to what you want them to be doesn't seem like that bad an idea really
but like I said I have no idea what this program does, I'm just saying in theory it could be just like the kind of feature you see in a DAW
in fact is it really that much different to using the repeat symbols or coda in music notation?
just convenient ways of laying it out so you don't have to
anyway, I could be totally wrong, it might be completely crap, and I agree about Microsoft and laughed my arse off at it, I'm just saying if it spits out MIDI I could imagine a use for it
