[sdiy] SF Bay Area Alert: Dave Smith at CCRMA today

[Adam Inglis]

On 06/06/2014, at 6:00 AM, Terry Shultz wrote:
> ...... back in the days I worked for Tom Oberheim and Dave Rossum at  
> E-mu.
>


Hi Terry
Have you or someone you know written any memoirs of this period?

cheers
Adam






>
> On 6/5/2014 11:30 AM, Donald Tillman wrote:
>> On Jun 4, 2014, at 4:14 PM, Doug Terrebonne <dougt55 at yahoo.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> technology. He then took over as President at Seer Systems and  
>>>> developed
>>>> the world's first software based synthesizers.
>>> Sorry I have to call BS on that. There were software synths well  
>>> before Seer. Digidesign's SoftSynth and TurboSynth come to mind...
>>
>> I don't know much about this area, but let's consider the context.
>>
>> DigiDesign's SoftSynth is not real time, right?  It crunches and  
>> writes out to a file as it goes, and you get to play the file back  
>> later.  I'm guessing Dave Smith was only considering a software  
>> synth that could be used in performance.
>>
>> And is TurboSynth similar, or does it require DSP hardware or  
>> something?
>>
>> Also, his talk was strictly about commercial products, he's not  
>> including lab or academic work.
>>
>> So does the use of the phrase "first software based synthesizer"  
>> simply imply commercial, real time, and no hardware support?
>>
>>   -- Don
>>
>> --
>> Don Tillman
>> Palo Alto, California
>> don at till.com
>> http://www.till.com
>>
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