10 Jan
2008
10 Jan
'08
12:45 a.m.
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 20:03:40 Ken Restivo wrote:
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 12:00:42AM -1000, david
wrote:
I believe the patents developed at Stanford, if I remember correctly about
400 in number, was known as Sondius. Anyway here are some links:
http://otl.stanford.edu/tech/sondius.html
http://news-service.stanford.edu/pr/97/970708staccato.html
http://news-service.stanford.edu/pr/97/970709sondiusxg.html
How much of this made its way to market through Yamaha, I do not know. I
believe the " YMF nnn " series of chips had some this in the firmware. I
suspect that this may have been part of the problem in Linux audio to really
support those cards. As I understood it, was while most of the market was
relying upon samplings, the Yamaha chips were dynamically sound synthesis.
These presumptions, may be not correct.
Hope this helps.
Tom
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