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

[John Check]

On Monday 16 August 2004 07:47 pm, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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.
>

Code from 2002 also.

Okay.. I said over the weekend I was going to draft some position papers so,
I'm going to see if I can get that done my morning. Too much yakking and not 
enough hacking makes for an early grave.

> Lee