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From: "kees balde" <c.p.balde@...>

> the ways of synthesis are in theory infinitive.....but I think it will
stop
> to evolve at some time, because no great improvements will be made.
> And then..........some new device will conquer the world of modern music
> with something totally new.
> The same as theories in science.

Depends on what kind of science. Mathematics, for instance, doesn't have
many secrets left.

To me, it appears as accoustic instrument development has come to a
stand-still, at least in regard to new kinds of instruments.

Even in electronic instrument design, things seem to be slowing down. The
last really revolutionary step was the Yamaha VL1 in 1995, and to a somewhat
less degree the Yamaha FS1r in 1998, but that was based much on an older
design.

But there isn't much more than accoustic instruments and synthesisers,
because the latter is such a large group. There were the Rhodes, Hammonds
and the like, that are somewhere in between. But nothing is happening on
that front either.

So now we have modelling effects, but after that? I couldn't possibly tell.
More modularity, more combining of existing techniques into unusual
combinations... or perhaps someone will come up with something totally new,
or the Theory of Everything, for that matter.

- Peter