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The Direct Note Access feature coming in the new version of Melodyne is exactly what sample-based producers like me have been waiting for. We doubted it’s possibility, but it’s here. Change pitch on notes IN a chord. Not just monophonic material, polyphonic. Yeah…
Here’s a presentation

I urge you to watch the whole thing, but for the crazy shit, fast-forward to about minute 10, for a string quartet demo, damn!

For a more concise explanation, check out the video on their website.

Farewell to a brilliant show:

I see no reason why Sally Kern, the batshit fucking insane Christian lawmaker from Oklahoma, should apologize for her anti-gay speech. I hope she doesn’t, and it boggles my mind why so many people are demanding her apology?

Why??

You are essentially demanding her to lie. If that could possibly make you feel better then you are as deluded as she is.

BTW in case you are in the dark about all this, here is her speech:

Yeah, she’s pretty evil.

I saw an interview with her today where she refused to apologize for her beliefs. Right on to that at least.

Look, to everyone who is outraged (and I am as well!): You want to this kind of speech to end, make sure she doesn’t get re-elected. If you believe at all in democracy let it do it’s work, and help it if need be. But don’t pretend to yourself that this woman is going to somehow feel bad about this. This is what she thinks and believes, and no matter how callous and evil she is, she ain’t gonna change. On the bright side, millions of people are going to know what a crackpot she is.

This is a good thing.

I wasn’t sure how happy I felt about Spitzer going down (presumably) for the Prostitution thang. I don’t think it should be illegal, so I didn’t want the fact that he’s kind of a douche to sway me too much. But after, ya know, reading a bit more about MY governor, including this gem thrown my way by my buddy Clayville:

Media content has gotten more graphic, more violent and more sex-based… Currently, nothing under New York State law prohibits a fourteen-year old from walking into a video store and buying… a game like ‘Grand Theft Auto,’ which rewards a player for stealing cars and beating people up. Children can even simulate having sex with a prostitute…

Yeah, it kinda feels good. Still, I was somewhat ignorantly happy to have a Democrat as governor after more than ten years of Pataki, oy…

Ok, while I’m at it. Does anyone think that Pataki,

is really the scary kid from the Twilight Zone:

It’s a fucking conspiracy I swear it!

Oh yeah, did I mention that Hillary is just as rabidly anti-video game as Spitzer??

This is incredibly silly. Like all anti-drug alarmist speech, it completely ignores the fact that drug prohibition is the REASON for the drug trade in Africa. Governmental prohibition is what is killing people, funding organized crime, taking money from the poor; it is not Amy Winehouse.

PS you hear about her putting a cigarette out on her face? Nice.

French women ‘are the sexual predators now’

That title of the Telegraph (big surprise!) story is apparently paraphrased from this quote:

“The good old dichotomy (male predators, females patiently awaiting the warrior’s return in front of the cave entrance) is in big trouble”, said Le Nouvel Observateur.

Tacky and misleading. But I clicked, so… I guess it worked. I think it was the WTF factor.

And on…

As much as I hate to see Clinton make gains by employing dirty tricks, I guess it’s good preparation for Obama, if he makes the nomination. Still, aside from the attack dogs on both sides, I believe that an Obama vs. McCain election would be a remarkable civil one.

Sigh… But alas, the media. This primary season is highlighting the true bias in the media. It was never about a liberal bias or conservative bias, in the mainstream media (of course diregarding the pundits). It is always about the story. It is always about what would attract the most viewers. This makes sense; they are a business. So the stories they seek are about what will capture the imagination of the people, captivate them, draw them into the drama that they can sculpt out of real events.

The best story that could come out of the democratic primary is a razor close, bitter fight for the nomination, taking it all the way to the convention if possible. So the media will naturally attempt to engineer this. I don’t think there has been a clear pro-Obama bias. But when Hillary was in the lead, and seen as inevitable, the press appeared to highlight Obama as a “challenger” and a “visionary”, the adoration parodied on SNL was tactful. They wanted Obama to catch up with Hillary, but not because they wanted him to win. Because they wanted a good story. And so Obama surpassed her, and now they are hounding him, and presenting her as a “fighter”.

It will go back and force as long as they have any influence. Clinton did well in the recent primaries, but she’s still down about 100 delegates. They’ll be shouting “comeback kid!” about her for the new week or so, presumably until Clinton’s polls catch up with Obama’s. Then we’ll see.

One thing that concerns me though. Clinton seems more adept as playing the media game. She knows how to present herself to get a story. Obama’s naiveté is in attempting to elude Clinton’s steel cage match. She wants it and she’s going to get it.

There’s been an awful lot of these lately… What the hell is going on?