[LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

[david]

Atte Andre' Jensen wrote:
> Folderol wrote:
> 
>> Recent discussion on LAU morphed into an idea for an Ethernet driven
>> sound card, and as this is now becoming a real development the
>> suggestion was made that it would be better to transfer the discussion
>> here.
> 
> This sounds very promissing (I know it's only "in our minds" ATM).
> 
> I wonder why no company took up this idea already, it seems so sleek and 
> logical. (Almost) every computer has ethernet and the ethernet standard 
> is (in my experience) problem free...

I believe there are already musical instruments with Ethernet 
connectivity ... ah, sounds much like what Gibson was doing back in 2004:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/guitar.html

Their technology is proprietary (probably patented), and a previous 
Google search found a number of patents, just to add to the minefield.

And here's an entry from Fender in 2005:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/11/21/wed.enabled.guitar/index.html

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