http://gizmodo.com/5061762/direct-note-access-music-software-now-even-more-revolutionary

Pretty cool that they can do this. Like someone in the comments said, it's going to be helpful to pre-compose some ideas. But it is kind of lame because tons of stuff already gets auto tuned :/

Sounds rather cool methinks
Have fun.

I don't record music or edit it or anything -- But that does look pretty cool. Amazing they can do that.

At first I didn't see this as all that revolutionary. And I guess it really isn't. Like, it's a sweet new technology but it's not going to spawn a new genre or something, like the sampler did for example. I can see a lot of kids getting lazy with it though. This could be the next Fruity Loops, by comparison.

On the other hand, think of what could be done with recordings that you're stuck with, perhaps even by choice:

Your garage band had an a great take, where your bassist improvised this great little solo, but your idiot guitarist got excited and missed the chord progression. If you multitracked at all you could make it sound flawless with little to no effort without losing that improvisation you couldn't possibly reproduce.

Or you produce electronic music and you've got this great little Miles Davis sample but it's the wrong scale for your piece. That's like two clicks away from really easy experimentation.

Pretty cool stuff.

While yes, revolutionary in the field of editing, it just means bad musicians can make better music without being able to actually to play it which doesn't seem that great to me.

True, but that already happens (like auto-tuning vocals). It is pretty cool that you can screw around with what you already have to see what else you can come up with.

Or maybe you should just get it right the first time!

Which is why I'm not excited.

better music is better music.

Eh. If they can't play it, they can't perform live. the market will find a niche for each type of music. this is more fitting for club remixes and stuff i think. organic music is still full of hardheaded musicians who don't like gimmicks like this

At the end of the day, most people don't go and see bands live that often, so all they're really looking for is something that sounds nice. This will allow more stuff that sounds nice.

But think of the other potential uses, maybe a police kidnapping department can use something similar to isolate individual tones from a ransom call and find clues more easily.