----- Original Message -----
From: thomas fisher <studio1(a)commspeed.net>
Date: Saturday, December 1, 2007 9:27 pm
Subject: Re: [LAU] Hardware synths
To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
On Saturday 01 December 2007 23:01:22
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: thomas fisher <studio1(a)commspeed.net>
Date: Saturday, December 1, 2007 6:55 pm
Subject: Re: [LAU] Hardware synths
To: linux-audio-user(a)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.
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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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