[linux-audio-dev] Re: This better not be patented...

[Jens M Andreasen]

On tor, 2004-09-16 at 13:14, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:

> > "Pricing was not announced yet, but Cann says he will make his technology
> > available for "far less" than the cost of professional studio DSP solutions
> > which can run into the high five-figure range. He estimates the price
> > will be somewhere between $200-$800."
> 
> In their website:
> Copyright © 2004 BionicFX. All rights reserved worldwide. Patent Pending.
> 
Uhmm .. They have a patent pending on 'Copyright (C) 2004' ?? 
:))

> OK, people should start searching any text which mentions
> that GPUs could be used to audio processing. Perhaps music-dsp had
> discussions. I may have something written down on my own.
> 
Here is an early paper:

  http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/oskin/thompson-micro2002.pdf

It is about general-purpose-computing of which audio-processing is a
subset. (BTW: Check out the aging references on the last page.)

More papers can be found here: http://www.gpgpu.org

/jens

> Juhana