I’ve dreamed of a device similar to this since I was child. It would be thrilling to isolate different stems from classical or really synthy music. The device looks like it’s a brookstone product from the 2000s though…
Kanye West's Stem Player – An engineering disaster
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#22> Writer's Note: Kanye West has legally changed his name to ye. Excepting the title, I'll be referring to him as ye throughout the post.
Nope. Nope. Not going to do that.
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#23Neil Young develops Pono
Kanye develops Stem Player
Neil Young thinks he's more powerful than Spotify
Kanye thinks he's more powerful than Jesus
hmmm
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#24-- Not sure what alleged role she is alleging - even after reading this 10,300 word essay - my understanding was that it's supposed to be a fun toy for the musically inclined (similar to teenage engineering products) - maybe i'm wrong - but it does fulfill that role perfectly - I sat on a 6 hour flight and did nothing but make tunes with my OP-Z and Stem Player - similar to TE products - the Stem Player is one of the…
> it's a really fun toy I’ll take your word for it, but “consumer” is not the lens through which the author is critiquing the device.
-- 70% of the article is about their trash marketing - business model - and a host of other things unrelated to engineering - Additionally filled with hits like: "In summary, they ignore me as soon as I show any interest, which I don't take too kindly." - in my opinion - author has a bone to pick - and that's fine - never the less - the concussion to the essay is the device does not fulfill the role - however the role it's supposed to fulfill is never defined - so I was simply sharing the role is serves for me - and serves it well --
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#25I’ve dreamed of a device similar to this since I was child. It would be thrilling to isolate different stems from classical or really synthy music. The device looks like it’s a brookstone product from the 2000s though…
Stemroller (currently also on the front page) will do just that! (Well the isolation part. Putting them back together enjoyably is left as an exercise to the reader. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32359325
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#26It’s always weird when public figures (who are not engineers) try to develop sophisticated physical products. Of course it’s going to be terrible. It’s like if Google would, I don’t know, make an action movie. Or if, say, the Dalai Lama would launch his own brand of cars. It’s not what they do .
You mean like Beats by Dre, who is also not an engineer, which was so terrible that Apple bought them for $3 Billion?
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#27-- Not sure what alleged role she is alleging - even after reading this 10,300 word essay - my understanding was that it's supposed to be a fun toy for the musically inclined (similar to teenage engineering products) - maybe i'm wrong - but it does fulfill that role perfectly - I sat on a 6 hour flight and did nothing but make tunes with my OP-Z and Stem Player - similar to TE products - the Stem Player is one of the…
> it's a really fun toy I’ll take your word for it, but “consumer” is not the lens through which the author is critiquing the device.
What is that lense though? Plenty of the article isn't actually about engineering issues with the device, and seems to be a weird axe-grindy/PR hit piece because they were writing an emulator and their meatspace interaction didn't go according to the author's plans.
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#28It’s always weird when public figures (who are not engineers) try to develop sophisticated physical products. Of course it’s going to be terrible. It’s like if Google would, I don’t know, make an action movie. Or if, say, the Dalai Lama would launch his own brand of cars. It’s not what they do .
You mean like Beats by Dre, who is also not an engineer, which was so terrible that Apple bought them for $3 Billion?
Isn't Beats by Dre considered not top of the line when it comes to sound quality and more like a fashion brand?
I'm not saying that they are bad, just that they aren't at the same level as brands like bose and sennheiser which are way less focused on celebrities branding.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because software isn't something that you can just buy off the shelf given enough money, otherwise Bill Gates would have been Apple. It also requires taste and vision, two things that Kanye West utterly lacks.
He's literally a multi-billionaire from his taste and vision (Yeezy fashion, music production).
I don't think his success in business is in any way whatsoever supportive of your claim. McDonalds also has billions in revenue; does that make it great food?
Popularity and quality are orthogonal.
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Critics add value to things by building meaning around them. There many films which I enjoy reviews and analysis of more than the work itself. If you are so ascerbic toward peanut galleries it is a bit odd that you browse hackernews.
Critics add no value. They are parasitic individuals that feed off the creations of great men. I'm not sure why you find it odd I browse a forum for creators and hackers. The parasitic people are here too. They are talkers not doers.