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Any company/store/department that makes customized audio systems?
Started by ●December 25, 2003
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"Walter Harley" <walterh@cafewalterNOSPAM.com> wrote in message news:<bsduic$9fd$0@216.39.172.65>...> What kind of customizations are you looking for?SB16's FM synth w/ Creative Music Synth driver. The central channels of the Creative Music Synth's patches should be removed. Left channel should be phase-inverted, then combined with right channel. This would make a mono Creative Music Synth w/out what *was* in the center. I like the sound of CMS's polysynth pads w/out the central channel. The end product is of course in mono. Should be 32-bit rather than 16-bit. Should compute sinusoids that get modulated in FM from a power series on the fly. The highest musical pitch it can tolerate should be 96 KHz. Synth should be chip-based. In addition, all necessary software should be stored in chips. Should have its own processing unit. Should be compatible w/ USB, Ethernet, and FireWire port. Should self-install as soon as plugged in. Should support "warm" installion [i.e. should not need restart, should not need the user to install]. Should be able to convert non-MIDI audio (e.g. from CD, Tapes, etc.) to MIDI files. MIDI files should play through Creative Music Synth.
Reply by ●December 25, 20032003-12-25
In article <464c821f.0312251334.22aff92b@posting.google.com>, Radium <glucegen@excite.com> wrote:>> What kind of customizations are you looking for? > >SB16's FM synth w/ Creative Music Synth driver. > >The central channels of the Creative Music Synth's patches should be >removed. Left channel should be phase-inverted, then combined with >right channel. This would make a mono Creative Music Synth w/out what >*was* in the center. I like the sound of CMS's polysynth pads w/out >the central channel. The end product is of course in mono. > >Should be 32-bit rather than 16-bit. > >Should compute sinusoids that >get modulated in FM from a power series on the fly. > >The highest musical pitch it can tolerate should be 96 KHz. > >Synth should be chip-based. In addition, all necessary software should >be stored in chips. > >Should have its own processing unit. > >Should be compatible w/ USB, Ethernet, and FireWire port. Should >self-install as soon as plugged in. Should support "warm" installion >[i.e. should not need restart, should not need the user to install]. > >Should be able to convert non-MIDI audio (e.g. from CD, Tapes, etc.) >to MIDI files. MIDI files should play through Creative Music Synth.You're not asking for "customizations", fella, at least not in the sense that I think most people use the term. You're looking for a whole new product design. You may be asking for some things which are well beyond the technical state of the art (if by "32-bit" you mean that you really expect 32-bit resolution and noise levels), or for which no good solution is known or possible (I suspect that the generalized audio-to-MIDI problem is of that sort). Plan on hiring at least two very, very good design engineers (one hardware wizard, one software guru). Give them good enough resources to work with, and you might have a prototype in a year for those aspects of the system which are physically realizable with today's technology. Plan on spending a whole bunch of time up-front refining your rather vague requirements ("Should be compatible w/ USB, Ethernet, and FireWire port" needs a hell of a lot more detail, for one thing!) before you turn your engineers loose. If you don't have the personal or family financial resources necessary to pony up a megabuck or so for this, you could start tackling the problem yourself on a hobby basis. Based on your comments and questions to date, I suspect that you've got several years of concentrated study and learning ahead before you fully understand just how big an effort you're describing as "customization". Good luck! -- Dave Platt <dplatt@radagast.org> AE6EO Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!
Reply by ●December 25, 20032003-12-25
dplatt@radagast.org (Dave Platt) wrote in message news:<vumnuo7gmmh405@corp.supernews.com>...> You're not asking for "customizations", fella, at least not in the > sense that I think most people use the term. > Based on your comments and > questions to date, I suspect that you've got several years of > concentrated study and learning ahead before you fully understand just > how big an effort you're describing as "customization".Okay I went too far asking for 32-bit, audio-to-MIDI, and the USB/Firewire crap. However, I'd still like SB16's FM synth driven by CMS w/out its central channel.
Reply by ●December 26, 20032003-12-26
Radium wrote:> > dplatt@radagast.org (Dave Platt) wrote in message news:<vumnuo7gmmh405@corp.supernews.com>... > > You're not asking for "customizations", fella, at least not in the > > sense that I think most people use the term. > > Based on your comments and > > questions to date, I suspect that you've got several years of > > concentrated study and learning ahead before you fully understand just > > how big an effort you're describing as "customization". > > Okay I went too far asking for 32-bit, audio-to-MIDI, and the USB/Firewire crap. > > However, I'd still like SB16's FM synth driven by CMS w/out its central channel.Creative's sound cards are not programable unless you work for them. From posts here and elsewhere in the last weeks, Radium, I'm wondering if you went off your lithium. Asking for 600 dB dynamic range, among other things, has a certain manic feel about it. :-) Bob -- "Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler." A. Einstein
Reply by ●December 26, 20032003-12-26
Bob Cain <arcane@arcanemethods.com> wrote in message news:<3FEBC0C1.F1825768@arcanemethods.com>...> Asking for 600 dB > dynamic range, among other things, has a certain manic feel > about it.I never asked for 600 dB. In that post, I was wondering if a 100-bit digital audio device could handle - at the digital level - 600 dB without/clipping. 1-bit gives a dynamic range of 6 dB. However, all that is OT for this thread.
Reply by ●December 26, 20032003-12-26
In article <464c821f.0312261144.14f10c4d@posting.google.com>, glucegen@excite.com says...> Bob Cain <arcane@arcanemethods.com> wrote in message news:<3FEBC0C1.F1825768@arcanemethods.com>... > > Asking for 600 dB > > dynamic range, among other things, has a certain manic feel > > about it. > > I never asked for 600 dB. In that post, I was wondering if a 100-bit > digital audio device could handle - at the digital level - 600 dB > without/clipping.Lesse, db=20Log(v1/v2), or 10^(db/20)= V1/V2. Thus, 600db is 10^30. 2^100 ~ 10^33.3 ;-) (2^10 ~ 10^3), so it seems like the math, if neither the physics nor engineering, works.> > 1-bit gives a dynamic range of 6 dB. > > However, all that is OT for this thread.-- Keith
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