Strange Microsoft MySong product: Ghosts in the machine

by John Biggs on March 11, 2008

Need a happy song? A jazzy song? A saddy song? Get you some of this MySong stuff. It’s basically a note detector that builds music based on the “tune” you sing into the program. The system then adds chords and accompaniment using all the skills these morons should probably be learning if they intend to ever write real music. This will be great for Lindsay Lohan, however.

via Giz

skain - March 11th, 2008 at 11:13 am PDT

Sweet. Now I can fire my retarded piano player!

diem - March 11th, 2008 at 11:32 am PDT

Ugh — this is nothing more than a glorified karaoke product. Perhaps it can have a setting where if I drunkenly slur my speech it adds 80’s hair metal guitar riffs?

When will MS learn not to replace talent? Stick with tech boys, you’re better off.

Yvan - March 15th, 2008 at 5:07 am PDT

Genial ! où le trouve t ‘on ?

Lars - March 18th, 2008 at 1:34 am PDT

@diem. It’s not a karaoke product at all. What it does is allows people who could never write music a chance to see what it might be like to write a song. Or it can be used by existing artists to explore new sounds and tones that they might have never been able to put down without pitch finding help. I think it will be very useful and I can’t wait to own it, personally.

diem - March 18th, 2008 at 11:28 am PDT

Hey Lars, I forgot my tags for you:

Ugh — this is nothing more than a glorified karaoke product. Perhaps it can have a setting where if I drunkenly slur my speech it adds 80’s hair metal guitar riffs?

Better? ;-)

diem - March 18th, 2008 at 11:29 am PDT

DAMMIT! Can you not put little tags in posts?

like “” but without the spaces?