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research.microsoft.com - 1/8/2009
Microsoft Research Songsmith: Download
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Click here to download a free trial of Songsmith. [.msi, 98MB] To install Songsmith, save the Songsmith setup program to your computer by right-clicking the download link above and choosing Save Target As (IE) or Save Link As (Firefox). Then double-click the file you just saved to your ...
research.microsoft.com - 1/8/2009
Microsoft Research Songsmith
— research.microsoft.com — What is Songsmith? Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer s voice. Just choose a musical... style, sing into your PC s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, ... (more) Microsoft Research Songsmith

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scobleizer.com - 1/8/2009
Microsoft gets you singing with Songsmith (first video demo)
— scobleizer.com — Microsoft released a very cool app tonight called Songsmith . You sing to it. It builds music.... I could write a lot more in text and you’d never get it, so instead, let’s discover it together in this first video demo, done in a hotel ... (more) Microsoft gets you singing with Songsmith (first video demo)

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music.metafilter.com - 1/12/2009
Runnin’ With the Songsmith
— music.metafilter.com — Not sure why people are making fun of Songsmith, sounds great to me.  ★ ... (more) Runnin’ With the Songsmith
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Mr. Microphone 2.0: Microsoft Songsmith Puts Even the Worst Lyrics to Music
ReadWriteWeb — ... clearing my head enough to figure out what those uses might be. Who knows? This might be another one of those Seinfeld things. Scoble has just posted an interview and demo with two researchers from Microsoft - who coincidentally also star in the promo video. They provide additional insight on the product and highlight some of its potential applications. Interested users can download a trial version from Microsoft Research. The product is available for purchase for ...

Microsoft Research released Songsmith
D' Technology Weblog — ...  is now available via the Microsoft Store as a digital download. A trial version is also available for download. The price for the full version if US$29.95. ...

Microsoft challenges Apple's GarageBand with Songsmith
TG Daily - All News — ... even if your singing skills are equal to those of a deaf elephant. Songsmith turns the genre of music-making applications upside down, and offers a refreshing idea coupled with casual, easy-going approach that might attract even those who generally steer away off a software related to music-making. Songsmith requires Windows Vista or Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or greater, and a .NET Framework 3.0, 1GB of RAM and at least 1GHz processor. A free trial is available for download here . The trial brings the full functionality of the paid version, but comes limited with six ...

Get Microsoft Songsmith installed on Windows 7 beta
Download Squad — ... that far off from the over-processed tripe in heavy rotation on Top 40 radio? I digress. "Back to the lecture at hand," to quote Snoop. You've got Windows 7, and you want to play around with Songsmith too - but you can't get it to install? Thankfully, Rafael Rivera has come to the rescue again. The same guy that brought us the Blue Badge tool to unlock hidden features in earlier betas has released a batch file and .mst that allow you to get Songsmith installed. Download the Songsmith trial, then grab Rafael's fix (search for the word ...

Singalongamicrosoft Songsmith
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... appropriate backing track. But it turns out that the program, launched at CES, does have a use. You can produce naff backing tracks for pop classics and run them behind the original video, to humorous effect. Roxanne, by The Police, is a typical example (above). YouTube has other examples, including Wonderwall (Oasis), What's Going On (Marvin Gaye), and Long Train Runnin (The Doobie Brothers). Surprisingly, I can't see any Led Zepp yet. There's a free trial download. * Note: the people in the video are real researchers from the Songsmith team in ...

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Microsoft Attempts To Kill Music Forever With Songsmith Commercial [Funny]
consumerist.com 1/14/2009 — My ears are shooting streams of blood As I watch this demo play But thanks to Songsmith's magic touch I sound like Bruce Springsteen You don't have to rhyme when you're using Songsmith. The demo...
Microsoft challenges Apple's GarageBand with Songsmith
tgdaily.com 1/14/2009 — Microsoft has been slowly but steadily building a set of accompanying software that mimics Apple's iLife suite of digital lifestyle applications. While the software maker now has basic Windows Live counterparts to all iLife applications, it didn't ...
Mr. Microphone 2.0: Microsoft Songsmith Puts Even the Worst Lyrics to Music
readwriteweb.com 1/8/2009 — Like to sing in the shower or in the car? Want to subject others to your incoherent warblings as if they were a real song? Microsoft Songsmith may be for you. And if you're a professional lyricist, musician, or someone with real musical talent? ...
Songsmith doesn’t install on Windows 7, why and a workaround
withinwindows.com 1/14/2009 — Tom Warren woke me up this “morning” (2pm) with a note pointing out Microsoft’s recently-released Songsmith does not install on Windows 7. Like a little kid with a new toy, I downloaded Songsmith and tried to install it on Windows 7… Songsmith ...
Download Link To Public Download of Windows 7
download.microsoft.com 1/9/2009 — Burn an ISO file to make an install DVD (A good example of what we mean by “technical”) Install Windows (of course) Backup and restore your PC (There's a chance of losing files, so it's a good idea to do a backup of anything you want to save.) Set ...
Songsmith makes you calm, fitter, healthier and more productive
crunchgear.com 2/1/2009 — While this could have been anything from Kid A , this is actually a version of “Creep” reworked by Microsoft Songsmith and the peppy beats could potentially completely cure the melancholy infused into countless proto-Goths by this ...