[LAU] Hardware synths

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----- Original Message -----
From: thomas fisher <studio1 at commspeed.net>
Date: Saturday, December 1, 2007 6:55 pm
Subject: Re: [LAU] Hardware synths
To: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org

> On Saturday 01 December 2007 01:35:30 david wrote:
> > David Griffith wrote:
> > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, david wrote:
> > >> Well, I think that Yamaha's sound patches in their hardware 
> synthesizers> >> sound much better than any soundfont I've heard. 
> ---------------------------How much of Yamaha's sound is influenced 
> by the 
> 400+ patents developed by Stanford's digital musical department 
> over about 15 
> years. I believe the project was known as "Sondius." 
> http://otl.stanford.edu/tech/sondius.html

Interesting. Looks like some of the patents have expired - some were
filed in 1986, that's over 20 years, yes?

> Beyond this I cannot elaborate. Probably someone from CCRMA can 
> illuminate 
> the way.
> 
> -------------clipped----------<
> 
> > I do want to try my Wacom tablet as a control surface sometime. 
> Even a
> > Smartboard would be an interesting way to do music.
> Digital gloves.

A little more costly than I'm ready to spend. I already have two Wacom
tablets.

David
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