Mellotronists

> From: "charel196" <charel196@...>
   > Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:04:40 -0000
   > 
   > Regarding the amount of memory for a complete tape bank,the Pinder CD 
   > rom banks,with every note sampled full length,take up 12-16 meg in 
   > ram apiece.I have my E4K maxed out to 128 meg ram and a 3 gig HD to 
   > hold most of the disc.Seems to me the cost of rom/ram "should" be 
   > coming down as technology moves forward.

As much as I hate the idea of a digital Mellotron, I'll do the
honorable thing and point out that...

The price of memory has been dropping by roughly a factor of ten every
five years.  That translates to a factor of 100 every decade and a
factor of 10,000 every 20 years.  That rate has been remarkably
consistant since memory was first invented, maybe around 1945 or
thereabouts, and show no sign of changing.  (!!!)

And the price of RAM, ROM and disk have been tracking mighty closely,
so much so that the relationship between them hasn't really changed
since the 60's.  (Ie., we still use disks for files and virtual
memory.) 

Computer engineers know that if any approach is considered too costly
in the memory department, just wait a couple years and the problem
will be solved.

  -- Don

-- 
Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California, USA
don@...
http://www.till.com