On the heels of threads about the loudness war and "perfection" in recordings ruining the music, I wonder what people think about this program's new feature.

http://www.celemony.com/cms/
Or see the videos:
http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?i ... _betavideo

For those who don't want to read the whole link, Melodyne's new "DNA"/"Direct Note Access" feature allows you to adjust many features like pitch, timing, tempo, and vibrato within digital audio POLYPHONICALLY. Have a guitar chord that you wished was recorded as minor instead of major?

Change notes within chords. Fix the notes from that string you left out of tune before the recording!. That is pretty cool. Not only can every recording be "perfect," but every TAKE can be made perfect.

It isn't spontaneous, but WOW that's a way to make a polished recording FAST.

I think it is an awesome tool! And it will probably bring on some interesting discussions regarding copyright. I don't need it myself though. Wasn't it Paul Bley who said "Practice makes perfect - imperfect is better". For some reason that quote comes to mind...