2007 Interview: Cakewalk Founder Greg Hendershott, 20 Years On

"  There’s one holy grail left in music technology, too, which is polyphonic pitch detection. I still have this crazy dream that you should be able to take an audio file or a CD and have the software analyze it and do the amazing thing the human brain does which is know that okay these frequencies go together, these don’t. These are one distinct musical entity, they’re not just harmonics — how we actually do that is pretty incredible, and we do it automatically. If a computer could do that, or do bigger pieces of that, I think it’d be really interesting. That would enable a lot of applications, not just remixing but all sorts of interesting applications. Maybe it’s fundamentally impossible to do a hundred percent, but we’re just so far from a hundred percent — to get even close to that would be remarkable. "  -- Greg


Very cool