The big "Music Mess" part two!!

[Doug Tymofichuk]

Ok, I know how to use a delete key fine, but this is 
getting a bit much. What has any of this to do with DIY? Or 
am I missing something?

Doug 

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:33:45 GMT Bjorn Julin 
<bnillson at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The big Mess part 2!
> 
> [More Italians]
> 
> Charlie Labs had their own desk and they had 3
> OB12 DSP based instruments but all the noise
> around their both was so loud so it was not to
> easy to hear what it sounded like but as far as
> i could hear it sounded like the rest of the
> DSP based instruments.
> 
> Besides that they had a interesting portable
> keyboard that you could bend on the middle to
> make it half as short??
> 
> And there was an Italian maker of digital mixing desk
> who assembles their stuff in China (low prise low paid 
> labour) so the prise was surprisingly low compared to 
> allen/heat, soundcraft and the rest of the schmuck.
> The price is 316USD and vill be available in October found 
> the design interesting. DD1823 is the model number
> 
> have a peek a pook at:
> www.etekengineering.com
> 
> [Mechanics et all]
> For people living in Germany and you whit big
> money to spend the box manufacturer wo does
> waldorfs synth boxes was showing any kind of
> audio boxes.
> 
> www.ckmetalldesign.de
> 
> [The Swede go bananas]
> When the Messe arrangers know that the mess is going
> to be visited by people from all over the world why
> the hell don't they have some chairs so people could
> rest their feet????
> 
> Other interesting gadgets was the MUP22 and 88
> and multiplayer 3 from miditemp a German manufacturer
> of quite a odd but could be useful device for some.
> 
> www.mididtemp.de
> 
> Other sequenser computer stuff was showed by:
> www.modularing.com
> 
> [First Award for, "we dont know how to promote our stuff" ?]
> 
> Goes to Digigram. I have never seen so un inspired or
> un interested sales people as they appeared to be.
> 
> I think Digigram has splendid products and designs
> they have a PCMCIA sound card based on a 56309
> whit very nice specs and price but i didn't see
> any software for it,,,but if you just imagine a bit
> all that is needed is a simple and well written PCMCIA
> driver and a loader for the DSP card and you would be
> able to download synthesis algorithms from various
> manufacturers! You could very easily extract for example
> the micro Nords algorithms to run on the VXpocket card.
> 
> After attending the big mess i can say that i feel
> a bit disappointed by the music market, there is
> actually noting that was "very" interesting, it was
> more or less the same stuff recycled yet another turn!
> 
> Yes there was one dude who had invented a new and 
> interesting thing it came from Switcherland (the country 
> where they make all the switches!)it was a piece of 
> aluminium in a shape of a rectangular, palm size.
> 
> Imagine a square labyrinth remove all the inner tracks but 
> leave the last two outer tracks of the labyrinth, then mill 
> out the aluminium between these two tracks. Then you get a 
> second square in the middle, now take a piece of drumstick 
> and hit the inner metal piece and you will hear a crystal 
> clear tone whit a amazingly long sustain!!! By far the 
> longest sustain i ever have heard of a mechanical 
> instrument!
> 
> Now the interesting part was the ability of this design to 
> produce three different tones, by holding the inner metal 
> square and hit the outer metal square of the out milled 
> labyrinth you made a different tone. Do the same but then 
> hit the outer metal square on the vertical edge and you got 
> a tone of half the sustain and a third different tone!!
> 
> The design is patented by the designer and he asked for 
> retailers.
> 
> [Most tragic manufacturer]
> The music industry has turned into a evil place, the 
> competition is devastating for small manufacturers, the 
> software patent problem is a monster in USA and Japan and 
> God forbid that it will expand to other country's! (im not 
> religious but!!)
> 
> But i must say that all of the loudspeaker exhibitors was
> tragic to see,noone seamed to pay any interest to them
> and what could they do besides just sitting there and wait!!
> 
> BJ
> 
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Doug Tymofichuk
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