any comments?

[Ethan Robert Duni]

>This is kind of a stretch - Structured Audio alone (at least as these pages
>read) doesn't give a composer high-level, "modular" control over synthesis
>models, nor does it even adhere to a single synthesis method.  Synthesis
>will supposedly be handled via a single programming language that will
>hopefully be capable of describing (and rendering) any synthesis method.
>Creating instruments out of thin DSP air is not something most composers
>are willing to do; that's why they pay engineers at Yamaha, Korg, &
>Kurzweil to do it for them.  Csound, the most widely successful "synthesis
>language" to date, has still (unfortunately) remained confined to
>universities. 
-side note: MPEG-4's Structured Audio Orchestration Language is VERY similar
to CSOUND.  many people involved in the developement of current CSOUND also
worked on MPEG-4... CSOUND is, i'm told, a lot faster, though.. 

i look forward to it, but i don't think it'll be as revolutionary as
everyone has billed it to be..

Ethan