[linux-audio-dev] Gigasampler vs Halion PR war

[Sebastien Metrot]

I think I allready told the audience here about it but nobody seemed to
listen :-).
A good friend of mine works for steinberg. He worked (and still works) on
Halion. He told me that steinberg only proved previous work with the cubase
audio engine as cubase allready cache audio in ram and is a musical device.
It was enough for them to stay away from the patent fight with nemesys and
their friends. This info comes directly from Karl Steinberg via my friend
who is the author of CDXtract and of the conversion engine of Halion. Of
course one can still argue and imagine a plot around this but it seems
reasonable to me.

Sebastien

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Davis" <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
To: <linux-audio-dev at music.columbia.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Gigasampler vs Halion PR war


> >Do we know what Steinberg did about this, if anything?
>
> i suspect from what i'm learnt from my patent attorney friend that the
> "amount of data cached" issue that the Giga article dismissively
> refers to in reference to Halion is actually precisely what Steinberg
> did. they changed the parameters of the caching so that it no longer
> infringes on the exact terms of the patent. just my guess.
>
> its often easy to do this kind of thing, apparently.
>
> --p
>