[linux-audio-dev] Audio synchronization, MIDI API

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 19:24, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, John Check wrote:
> > That was exactly what I was thinking when the penny dropped for me. 
> > Originally I was thinking of offload the softsynths, but FX are expensive too. 
> > The ideal is to make a total system, but make it modular, and give it the 
> > ability to connect with existing commercial systems via a VST counterpart to 
> > the plugin.
> > We need to take over incrementally and this is a killer strategy to get a 
> > toehold. 
> 
> Now watch roland or some yamaha engineer lurking on these mailing lists 
> file a patent after reading that email, then come around and sue you 
> later for implementing your own creation.
> 
> (eg, someone here should patent it first before roland/yamaha/etc does)
> 

Don't need to.  The email, now archived all around the world, is proof
of prior art.

Lee