stilty Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 So they have this new program called Songsmith, you can get a quick background here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/red...ects/songsmith/ and someone ran a vocal track of David Lee Roth through the program. You can listen to the results here: http://music.metafilter.com/2943/Runnin-With-The-Songsmith Now I dont' know what is more awful. The results of Diamond Dave being interpreted by Microsoft... or the god awful program itself. just painful! utterly painful. also, if you take a closer look to the youtube clip, you can see that the little girl is using a macbook... they just put some stickers on it to hide the apple logo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_sphere Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Video taken down. Shundi told me that windows 7 is pretty bitchin btw. I wouldnt count microsoft out just yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Well, you do have to admit their wristwatch is pretty nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilty Posted January 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Here, this one should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_sphere Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 My god... I just watched that... shoot me please... Protools does this about 20x better at 20x the price. Its not a BAD idea... but the advertisement for it is terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docdoc Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 (edited) and then there is garage band ! The actors are deadly bad !!! I wonder if this microsoft company will last ? Edited January 13, 2009 by docdoc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 I just saw this today and had problems keeping my lunch down. Funny thing, is that they seem to be using a Mac in the commercial and somebody pointed out that the entire ad was some sort or irony from MS. @blue_sphere W7 is pretty darn good. I've had the beta since they released it to the developers and it's running faster and better than Vista. Even tried upgraing one of my Vista machines and that went painless. I've read on some developer forums that upgrading is not recommended if you have hardware that is a couple of years old as most problems with the beta is caused by missing or bad drivers. Although things are working great and I love some of the new features, I'm having a hard time to justify that eventually I will have to pay good money for this, because it just looks like a big service pack to Vista. Now, I've never had any problems with Vista and think it's a great OS, but W7 is kinda like Vista should have worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Let me get this right..... This is the best advert a multinational company with billions in assets can produce? Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_sphere Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 @blue_sphere W7 is pretty darn good. I've had the beta since they released it to the developers and it's running faster and better than Vista. Even tried upgraing one of my Vista machines and that went painless. I've read on some developer forums that upgrading is not recommended if you have hardware that is a couple of years old as most problems with the beta is caused by missing or bad drivers. Although things are working great and I love some of the new features, I'm having a hard time to justify that eventually I will have to pay good money for this, because it just looks like a big service pack to Vista. Now, I've never had any problems with Vista and think it's a great OS, but W7 is kinda like Vista should have worked. Shundi was saying the same thing. I love the idea of the improving the performance vista is such a hog. The main issue with a new OS is the drivers though. Hopefully the graphics card companies, sound companies, etc get with the picture and start development now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidestro Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Let me get this right..... This is the best advert a multinational company with billions in assets can produce? Ken Apparently you are forgetting the advertising train wreck that was the Jerry Seinfeld series of ads. The ads so bad that they were to be a "series" until no one got them or cared about them. They told Jerry just to keep the money and GTFO. That is Microsoft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Apparently you are forgetting the advertising train wreck that was the Jerry Seinfeld series of ads. The ads so bad that they were to be a "series" until no one got them or cared about them. They told Jerry just to keep the money and GTFO. That is Microsoft. Actually I missed those.......thank God Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidestro Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Shundi was saying the same thing. I love the idea of the improving the performance vista is such a hog. The main issue with a new OS is the drivers though. Hopefully the graphics card companies, sound companies, etc get with the picture and start development now. I have not got around to it beause I am still sore over the screwing I got testing Vista, but driver support is supposed to be pretty good in this beta. I heard that the Windows 7 is just a tuned up version of Vista, de-Vistaed if that makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidestro Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Just for Kenberg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilipM Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 (edited) Slightly better than the macbook wheel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Gzq-QEt0s Edited January 13, 2009 by PhilipM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidestro Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 My god... I just watched that... shoot me please... Protools does this about 20x better at 20x the price. Its not a BAD idea... but the advertisement for it is terrible. I blame Protools for shitification of music today. ProTools is responsible for the release of "music" that should have never seen the light of day making it big. Paris Hilton had an album due to PT for christ sakes. I am a big fan of going to concerts and you can tell which bands are good in the studio and which ones phone it in on PT. I miss the days when bands went in and put [censored] on tape and then performed it the exact same live. Compare the bands that recorded on tape (Beatles, Black Sabbath, Led Zep, etc.) to what we have today, I don't think Protools was a development that helped so much as an aid to [censored] music. I can't wait to see what my kids will listen too with a generation brought up using this Microsoft thing to record albums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Surly Bill Gates know's never to work with children, animals and has been comic's? Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shundi Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 W7 is pretty darn good. I've had the beta since they released it to the developers and it's running faster and better than Vista. Even tried upgraing one of my Vista machines and that went painless. I've read on some developer forums that upgrading is not recommended if you have hardware that is a couple of years old as most problems with the beta is caused by missing or bad drivers. Although things are working great and I love some of the new features, I'm having a hard time to justify that eventually I will have to pay good money for this, because it just looks like a big service pack to Vista. Now, I've never had any problems with Vista and think it's a great OS, but W7 is kinda like Vista should have worked. I've used Ubuntu since...a while ago but I had Vista on a separate partition... I love XP and I didn't have issues with Vista b/c I had up to date hardware... 7 is very, very snappy and seems to be running just fine...I remember Vista RCs 1 + 2 and they were no where near as polished as this... My only caveat so far has been my inability to install iTunes for my phone... Something with the kernel + quicktime... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaedo Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Gates, a circus? Quite rightly so in that scenario. Were they actually trying to advertise something??? Funny thing is of course, Jerry always used apple on the show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
its_urabus Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 been a beta tester for MS for a while now, hated vista rc1 and rc2, rtm was ok, but major issues. windows 7 is good. and its beta 1. it is vista 2.0 basically. drivers are same as vista which is nice, but if you have older devices, good luck. I have it loaded on a workstation, works great. I have it loaded on a 3 year old workstation laptop and it crashes often. my opinion is get windows 7 on a new pc and enjoy.\ oh and I think the diamond dave audio is amazing and the acting in that vid is top notch ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slay Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Apparently you are forgetting the advertising train wreck that was the Jerry Seinfeld series of ads. The ads so bad that they were to be a "series" until no one got them or cared about them. They told Jerry just to keep the money and GTFO. That is Microsoft. That Seinfield Ad was actually a pretty good ad. But unfortunately the majority of those who watch TV have an IQ below 50. Those would also not understand the Seinfield series, or just watch it because its hip (like some people watch South Park, like and, but don't get it AT ALL). For these people, such an ad is not gonna work. But this music creating thing, seriously, if I was a manager somewhere and head of marketing showed me this, I would have slapped him in the face. Just slap him. SLAP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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