Comments on: Microsoft Launches Electronica Community Site

By: admin

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:23:10 +0000

Spooky is definitely still on his PowerBook. I think SONAR must be whoever engineered the album. Chuck D is a big fan, so that may be his influence.

Max/MSP Jitter is still a big tool for him, though I think he uses other things, as well. Vintage titanium PowerBook. ;-)

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:10:55 +0000

i must be living in a vacuum cuz i thought dj spooky was a mac guy - in late ‘04 issue of urb magazine he was all about pluggo’s max and digital performer on a powerbook.

i can’t help but wonder how much better his interview would’ve sounded with quicktime streaming :p

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:13:44 +0000

Apple has Emagic, Steinberg has Yamaha, Sony has Sonic Foundry… - Cakewalk?

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:57:09 +0000

It wouldn’t surprise me if they did try to come up with something to compete with GarageBand… It’s got to drive them nuts that Apple has something neat and functional with which to drive Mac sales…

By: admin

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:49:37 +0000

I think it’s just a community site, making use of the technology they’re using for things like MSN Spaces (their answer to Blogger). Notice the Microsoft name is played down.

I don’t think this is dead-center on Microsoft’s radar screen, given the profiles have “Favorite Drink / Favorite Chemical” on them.

For the record, my favorite chemical brain cell killer is Word 2004’s commenting feature. MAN . . .: it’s like I can SEE the REVISIONS!

Peter

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:32:00 +0000

I have to ask why they are doing this? Preparing the way for the launch of some app? A competitor to GarageBand? maybe

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:56:02 +0000

I always think that’s the problem with dance music: not enough corporate sponsorship. It’s great to hear that Microsoft are now fully on board, bravely going where only Mitsubishi, Bacardi, Smirnoff, Volkswagen… have been before.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:12:28 +0000

I doubt seriously they’ll mind if you talk Mac. They’ll be happy to have users . . . right now looks like just the development team. It’s not all bad ideas on there, but the thing is so darned ugly.

Sorry, have to translate to their writing style:

If you want to be talkin smack about Mac’n around, the Microsoft peeps be down with dat.

Hmm . . . I didn’t make it quite forced enough. ;)

And, uh, MS guys, if you’re reading this: I only kid because I love. Create a broken RSS feed and post lots of MIDI puppets, and you can eat my lunch.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:15:18 +0000

The writing style is painfully faux-hip– it’s like reading drug pamphlets written by law enforcement officers trying to look cool.

It’d be interesting to post about Mac stuff and see if it gets nuked.