Simple or Everything

Make a song and the video desk each open with one choice at the top: Simple or Everything. It is worth knowing exactly what the difference is, because it is not what most apps mean by a simple mode.

Simple is the copilot and one button. You tell it what you want — "a happy song about my dog", in any language — and it writes the words, the style, the voice and the length. Then you press the button. What it has written is shown above the button, read-only, so you can see what you are about to pay for.

Everything opens the whole desk: every field, every choice, the storyboard, the lot.

Simple does not take anything away

This is the part worth reading twice. Simple HIDES the controls; it does not reset them. A length, a key, a trained sound or a quality grade you set in Everything still goes to the engine when you press the button in Simple — so the room prints a line under the switch saying what is still set. A setting that applies while its control is out of sight is worse than a crowded screen.

On the video desk there is one more thing Simple keeps: the quotation-mark rule. Anything you write in quotation marks is spoken aloud by the engine. Write a line without them and it comes back drawn at rather than said — the clip looks finished and the thing you made it for is missing. That warning follows you into Simple, because it is the one fault on that desk that is completely silent.

Whichever you pick is remembered, so somebody who has gone looking for the controls once does not have to go looking again.