David Halliday writes:
>>I got way more from Electronotes and the mainstream popular media (Keyboard,
Mix, etc. ) than I ever got from CMJ.<<
I used to subscribe to CMJ too and I don't think I ever got anything useful
from it. In fact I quite often got the impression they didn't know what was
happening in the commercial field and they were milling around on ideas that
had already been in the marketplace for years. It seemed like all talk and no
substance.
>>John Chowning's FM work (a derivation of Fourier's) was instrumental in a lot
of the initial synthesizers but it was Yamaha offering Stanford U. a mega-
royalty check that shook that development out and brought it into the real
world where it flourished. They made it real-time whereas all the University
Music Labs had it as batch jobs: Submit a card deck and come back tomorrow to
pick up your tape...<<
As long as university people can survive or get government grants for their
little experiments, they can putz around on projects and there's not much
incentive to commercialize them.
-Elhardt