Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, niall munnelly <aleph@a...> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:27:11PM +0200, Federico Ciapi wrote:
> > what about mLan?
> > seems the perfect solution  - although it's not really common.
> 
> it would've taken off and been great, if not for yamaha's
> exorbitant licensing fees.

...which I believe from my meetings with Yamaha is zero and nil?

The problem has been that their MLAN chips have been very very
expensive (in class of an expensive DSP), and that other manufacturers
have been slow in offering MLAN compatible chips.

As I see it there are two main reasons MLAN is not taking off. 

The first is that Yamaha themselves are taking so long in developing
the stuff. I mean it's just recently that we have reliable both Mac
and Win drivers!

The second is that the customers have not demanded the (in my eyes
brilliant) functionality. They are happy just to connect the sound
card to their PC/Mac, and for that standard Firewire (or worst case
USB/2) is enough and will always be cheaper. But the versability of
MLAN is very interesting, making also non-computer-centric setups
possible, and bringing the promise of a little less
computer-driver-depending world.

Daniel