FuzzyPlushroom
01-25-2009, 10:59 PM
Microsoft Songsmith debuted this month, and it's already being used to ruin classic songs. The Wiki article on it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songsmith) explains how - basically, you get the original vocal track alone, feed it through Songsmith, and Songsmith creates backing music for it.
Some of them are hilariously bad, such as "Tom Sawyer"...
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...while others work alarmingly well, like "I Heard It Through The Grapevine":
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Others still, like "Roxanne" and "White Wedding", are just laugh-out-loud funny:
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Since I can't sing, I might be trying this program that can't make music. Any thoughts?
EDIT: This (http://i.gizmodo.com/5129613/david-lee-roth-%2B-microsoft-songsmith--pure-horror) is the worst yet, and here's (http://i.gizmodo.com/5128182/microsoft-songsmiths-corny-musical-infomercial) an ad for the thing.
Some of them are hilariously bad, such as "Tom Sawyer"...
xavyV5smvdI
...while others work alarmingly well, like "I Heard It Through The Grapevine":
XyYfTips5yc
Others still, like "Roxanne" and "White Wedding", are just laugh-out-loud funny:
ypycpKQxXR0
UlCWo1qdTdE
Since I can't sing, I might be trying this program that can't make music. Any thoughts?
EDIT: This (http://i.gizmodo.com/5129613/david-lee-roth-%2B-microsoft-songsmith--pure-horror) is the worst yet, and here's (http://i.gizmodo.com/5128182/microsoft-songsmiths-corny-musical-infomercial) an ad for the thing.