11 Nov
2002
11 Nov
'02
10:35 a.m.
[on nemesys patent issues, from Sound On Sound]
"Sadly, this [HALion's disk prechaching] has caused rumblings behind the
scenes about possible patent infringement, since Nemesys are "the
exclusive MI licensee of Conexant Systems Inc", whose Endless Streaming
technology has "US and International Patents related to utilisation of
mass storage devices for real-time, low-latency access of musical
instrument digital samples". As a licensee, Nemesys themselves don't own
the patent, but Conexant will no doubt be taking a close look at how
HALion streams its data. I've also heard several industry rumours
suggesting that Emagic's promised EXS24 disk streaming, originally slated
for inclusion in the Logic Audio v4.7 update, was postponed for a similar
reason. We'll have to wait and see what happens."
Do we know what Steinberg did about this, if anything?
- Steve