Will You Remix The Hand That Feeds?
Oh, hell, it’s even on Slashdot now. (Boing Boing has a better set of links and a longer excerpt from the README.)
I can confirm that it plays fine in GarageBand 1.1 (if you’re willing to click through a string of inscrutable error dialogs, one for every sample). As I told Dave, I’m having a lot of fun looking through Trent’s source code, as it were—picking out and playing the background loops that give the song depth and texture when mixed in with the rest. But I wonder what a real electronic musician or mashup artist could create.
Update: this comment on the Slashdot story points out that, by default, new tracks in GB start with echo and reverb effects turned on but set at 0 (so they consume CPU cycles during playback without changing the audio). They can therefore be safely turned off (press command-I to open the info panel, twist open the “Details” region, click each instrument in turn, and disable the superfluous effects in the Details).
Update 2: Here you go. This is a very serious remix with very serious musical qualities. [serious stare]
Update 3: Actual fan remixes are starting to pop up (some more in this noisy thread).
Update 4: Oups, je l’ai fait encore.