[sdiy] About stereo enhancement stuff...

[Paul Schreiber]

Much later (early 1990) I also worked on another type of algorithm that 
evolved into 'Q-Sound'
which was first used on the 'Robin Hood' movie with Kevin Costner. It was 
only 'turned on' when
they shot the arrows with 'Arrow CAM' (the camera angle was like you were 
rding on top of the arrow).

http://www.qsound.com/demos/3d-audio.htm

This is more of a DSP thing :) I never used it at Tandy because at the time 
the DSPs were all discrete bit-slice
monsters that were about $5K of hardware, I was looking at a full custom 
ASIC (like what Q-Sound sells now)
I called the Wendy Processor (wonder where that name came from) that I was 
doing in conjunction with
Kurzweil (they had a 2 chip ROMpler set called Calvin and Hobbs they were 
testing the OEM marketplace with).

That was too $$$, I then called old synth buddy Dave Rossum at EMu and tried 
him to sell me the 'G Chip' ASIC
used in the Proteus stuff and that was were I was headed but RS nixed that, 
too.

I tried to get this technology in the Tandy Sensation, the world's first 
true multimedia PC (I was one of the
authors of the MPC specification and later worked on the AC97 codec spec 
with Microsoft) but true to Radio Shack nature, they would not give me
a $25/computer budget + $500K NRE to do it :(  I was also pressing Yamaha to 
sell me the ICs used in the
TX802 but they were not interested. So I worked on graphics cards.

Paul S.