MPEG4

[Steven Curtin]

At 03:05 PM 4/16/98 +1000, you wrote:
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>I saw this at http://sound.media.mit.edu/mpeg4/press_release.html
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>anyone had any experience with this?

Yes, I've been following this for about a year and it shows signs of being
very cool.  It's descended from Csound which I've used to do a couple of
pieces as well.  There's a test compiler out, but it's about 10-20 times as
slow as Csound. 
For more info check out the link at the bottom of the page- there's a
sparse but interesting mailing list for new developments. This is
definitely in the "virtual analog" camp, although two interesting
possibilities present themselves:

1) A bunch of analog knobs hooked up to a computer which can be assigned to
parameters for a "patch" running in Csound or MPEG4.
2) A programmable analog synth whose patch is specified and stored in the
MPEG4 language.

Both of these ideas are probably too far out for someone to make into a
product, although some mad hacker like yours truly might try making a
prototype of it sometime.

I'm back on the list now- I was off during a big crunch here at Lucent.
The Philips CPLD board is back out of its box and is being hooked up to
4049 buffers for interfacing with the analog modular.

Steve C

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