Run your mouse across a picture and hear musical notes based on the colors.
If you don't download and play with this plugin, you'll never have any idea what you've missed. If you've never run your mouse across a picture of the sun or any other picture and heard a magical burst of musical notes based on the colors under the mouse, then you've not seen/heard the future of music. Musical instruments of the future will be light based and this is your mondo-fun glimpse at it. If you don't like music or are thinking "who needs to hear pictures?" then please skip this patented, free plugin and have a music-loving friend give it a try for you. This isn't about need, this is about fun. If you love music as we do, then you'll get almost limitless pleasure from this plug-in which will turn even the most boring picture, anim or video into a concert (not random noise) or give you great entertainment while you wait for downloads. Pixound enabled pages start instantly and then the plugin does the rest, continuously translating the red, green and blue into musical notes on a given scale, in a given key and with given instruments. Enough said, the rest is up to you!
I tried downoading the Pixound thing, because it sounded like a cool device to play with. Not only is the site almost unmaneuvarble. I finally found the dang thing and downloaded it, only to find that it's no longer free!
Not only is there only a seven day trial, but you're not allowed to even try it on the internet. You're only allowed to use it on a single demo image. Even worse, you can't use almost all of the options. And the program doesn't even work well! The "music" is choppy and almost random, no matter how slow and fluidly one moves the mouse. I cannot begin to describe how overrated the quality of the "music" is. I don't know how this program's creators managed to rationalize charging for it, this program is worth less then nothing!
brilliant fun
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its an amazing musical tool, particularly when combined with the pixound file maker. and its just a lot of fun.