[LAU] Decent soundfonts

Ken Restivo ken at restivo.org
Wed Jan 9 22:03:40 EST 2008


On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 12:00:42AM -1000, david wrote:
> Simon Williams wrote:
> I've been using and loving the Yamaha audio patches for years. Someone 
> else on the list mentioned that a lot of the Yamaha audio sound is due 
> to the licensing of some very sophisticated wave guide audio patents 
> from MIT or some college like that. I suppose you could read the patents 
> and figure it out, but ...
> 

Wasn't it CCRMA at Stanford?

Converging with the thread about Tapestrea (which uses ChucK), I recall seeing license blurbs all over the ChucK source code that mentioned that the (now expired, I hope) patents were owned by Yamaha and had been developed at Stanford, IIRC.

-ken



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