SV: Re: SV: [sdiy] Re: designers timeline, Kawai!

[Barry Klein]

Who were they - did they have a company name?
I was a sales guy for a drive company somewhat earlier than that and I 
worked with a company called Hybrid Arts that had a nice recording solution
for Atari systems.  The drives I sold them turned out to be unreliable and
unfortunately, their stuff was assembled in Germany.  It cost a such a
bloody fortune to send those heavy beasts back to San Jose for repair that
it probably killed them.  It also probably cost me that job now that I think
about it (their credit was shakey, so both sides lost).

Barry


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Michael Bacich
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:04 PM
To: synth diy
Subject: Re: SV: Re: SV: [sdiy] Re: designers timeline, Kawai!


On Jan 11, 2007, at 3:46 PM, karl dalen wrote:

> What happened with the PC recording thing,
> noone else interested?

Nothing happened with it, at least with Kawai.  I don't know what  
happened to the guys who designed the thing.  They might have done  
some kind of deal with the WaveFrame company (makers of a high-end  
digital audio workstation in the mid-1990's, based on Silicon  
Graphics computers).

Kawai's engineers were too busy at the time with other projects to do  
any R&D on the digital recording idea.  Many of them were working on  
technologies that would eventually become the K5000 additive synth --  
which, while somewhat technologically and musically interesting,  
could only be considered to have been a failure in the marketplace.