The frontier is a very sad one (please prove me wrong!). I'm current withMIT media lab, Csound user group, CMJ. I visited Stanford just a few monthsago, but all they talk about is how to make things real-time and cheaper.Csound especially, all they talk about is real-time. Probably because they'vebeen "real time deprived" for so long. New sounds, nothing, nada, nil! Verysad considering that's been the computer frontier for the past forty years.
The only new thing on the horizon within past three years is "scanning synthesis".Witch is merely a derivative of wave shaping...
I'm dying to meet a professor with a white lab coat and a super computer,punching in numbers and telling me were the future is going
Tobias
Hence the frontier, if there is one, would be found in academia. That'swhere FM, granular, wave guide techniques all came from. Since I'm no longerhanging out at a university, I don't know whether the Computer Music Journalet al is currently giving some indication of future developments.
--Adam
Price is going down by the minute. NewG5 introduced, etc., but I have yet to see anything exiting done today witha computer that couldn't be done 10 years ago (regarding synthesis).
Yes yes, cheaper, more convenient, real-time etc. Oh and graphics.... (don'tget me started). But were is the frontier??? All the new pluggins we're seeingtoday is the harvest of 80s and early 90s research. Granular, convolutionwave guide. What happens next? What's the next big thing to happen in synthesis?The next big thing that today can only be done with a week of non real-timecompiling? As far as I can see, not a whole lot.
Sorry, just venting my frusration seeing all lap tops running Reason, addingto the growing pile of mediocre synth music.
Tobias
Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.