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Streaming a synthesizer to the web in realtime

2004-04-13 by Richard Brewster

I got this idea yesterday while relaxing and not thinking of anything in 
particular.  Why not publish a synth running in real time by streaming 
it from a server?  Radio stations can be tuned from the web, right?  A 
speech or concert can have a live webcast, no?  So why not a synth.  The 
audio output would be digitized and then encoded in real time to be 
streamed.

And here is the appeal:

I am an individual, working at home in my studio, who likes to create 
self-running patches.  I sometimes record with ProTools and a Digi001.  
But I am not really into recording.  Neither can I realistically get 
into performing live.  But I would like to let other people hear my 
synth.  Wouldn't it be great if I could publish it to the Internet, real 
time.  People could just tune in and listen for a while.  I wouldn't 
care if they recorded it.

How crazy is this?  Has anybody done it that you know of?

-Richard Brewster

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