MOTM

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