Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Stats and beats - the ultimate MusicGeek confluence

Oh, Music Thing, I love you. One of their readers who is way geekier than me has adapted Excel to work as a drum machine.

Where I can see the whole thing going horribly wrong is with the usage the guy wants to put it to. Apparently, he wants audience members to play it with a wireless xBox pad that he hacked to work on USB. The ex-drama student in me is clapping wildly at the thought of audience participation. The music bit of me (notice I avoided calling myself a musician) is wincing horribly. Most people think Meg White is a good drummer.

God, I hope it quantizes on the fly. I suspect, however, that it doesn't. Ouch.

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