[LAU] Hardware synths

[gnome at hawaii.rr.com]

----- Original Message -----
From: thomas fisher <studio1 at commspeed.net>
Date: Saturday, December 1, 2007 9:27 pm
Subject: Re: [LAU] Hardware synths
To: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org

> On Saturday 01 December 2007 23:01:22 gnome at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
> > ----- 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.
> 
> FYI: 
> Glove-based input interfaces
> http://createdigitalmusic.com/?p=423
> 
> http://www.gizmag.com/go/1148/
> 
> ebay $59
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Essential-Reality-P5-3D-Game-Controller-Virtual-
> Glove_W0QQitemZ330176465437QQcmdZViewItem

Thanks. Still more than I can spend right now.

David
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