MOTM

The frontier is a very sad one (please prove me wrong!). I'm current 
with MIT media lab, Csound user group, CMJ. I visited Stanford just a 
few months ago, 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've been "real time deprived" for so long. New 
sounds, nothing, nada, nil! Very sad 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's where FM, granular, wave guide techniques all came from. Since 
> I'm no longer hanging out at a university, I don't know whether the 
> Computer Music Journal et al is currently giving some indication of 
> future developments.
>
> --Adam
>
>     Price is  going down by the minute. New G5 introduced, etc., but I
>     have yet to see anything exiting done today with a computer that
>     couldn't be done 10 years ago (regarding synthesis).
>     Yes yes, cheaper, more convenient, real-time etc. Oh and
>     graphics.... (don't get me started). But were is the frontier???
>     All the new pluggins we're seeing today is the harvest of 80s and
>     early 90s research. Granular, convolution wave 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-time
>     compiling? As far as I can see, not a whole lot.
>
>     Sorry, just venting my frusration seeing all lap tops running
>     Reason, adding to the growing pile of mediocre synth music.
>
>     Tobias
>
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