Ableton meets its match?

j2j · Post by **j2j** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:32 pm

This is just hilarious. The girls using a MAC. Yes? No?

Hilarious. I love it.....

aqua_tek · Post by **aqua_tek** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:38 pm

inspiring, in an early 90's after school special kind of way.

OvertoneZero · Post by **OvertoneZero** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:12 pm

This ad is one of the worst things I've ever seen (and heard), ever.

I want the software though... set it for uplifting and then just let it flow..

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:19 pm

OvertoneZero wrote:This ad is one of the worst things I've ever seen (and heard), ever.

I want the software though... set it for uplifting and then just let it flow..

Honestly, you'll make better music with Rubber bands, paperclips, sharp sticks

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:19 pm

Another Microsoft classic, slowly but surely they're digging their own grave

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:20 pm

djsynchro wrote:Another Microsoft classic, slowly but surely they're digging their own grave

yeah, good point...only 94 more market share points to go...

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:29 pm

Painful to watch. It's got to be some sort of reverse psychology that every single M$ ad makes me cringe. OK gotta go find a dog to beat on.

suspended childhood · Post by **suspended childhood** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:50 pm

this is just awful.

maybe this will do to the music inductry what windows movie maker did to the movie industry....no need to carry around my 1986 k-mart bought casio keyboard and yahama drum machine anymore.

crumhorn · Post by **crumhorn** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:01 pm

Everyone is so keen to hate microsoft that they are missing the important thing here.

OK the add is dreadful and the "music" coming out of the thing is dreadful as well. But I can see what they are trying to do and from a music software technology point of view I think this is the first product of it's type.

It actually listens to what you sing and follows it in real time. As far as I know this is ground breaking technology. Unless you know of something else that does that. This seems like an entirely new technology in it's infancy to me. The application of AI technology to create a computerised accompanist.

OK you can go back to taking the piss now.

vicz · Post by **vicz** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:21 pm

Ha so now we know where Simon Cowell gets his songs from!

Seriously though, I tried this but with my great voice all my songs sounded like Leonard Cohen, except not as cheerful. Hallelujah!

Anyway, its from Microsoft, so it must be easy, right!

BTW Is it me or are all the songs in the ads the same?

forge · Post by **forge** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:24 am

ha ha ha ha

"now thanks to songsmith, we're singing all the time" is a sure fire recipe for a run of smashed computers

seriously though, if it exports MIDI files it could potentially be useful

beatpoet · Post by **beatpoet** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:32 am

j2j wrote:This is just hilarious. The girls using a MAC. Yes? No?

Hilarious. I love it.....

Looks like a Mac to me

An M$ ad with a Mac, I've seen it all now.

Brilliant.

misteron · Post by **misteron** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:35 am

I lasted about 10 seconds then started screaming

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:35 am

^ no no no, people, Windows 7 boots on Macs using a tool called CampBoot (up your arse)

beatpoet · Post by **beatpoet** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:40 am

i have no doubt that it boots but it is funny that they couldn't find a PC laptop suitable for the M$ ad ...