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Hi Michael, Here are a few suggestions off the top of my head: 1. Market pressures vs. The original vision of the product and what actually is produced. 2. The trend toward "analog-like" interfaces (knobs and sliders that work in real time) on digital gear. 3. Product documentation. Why do so many product manuals provide accurate technical information about each function of a product, but no practical suggestions on how to get the sound you have in your head out of it? 4. Presets. Why do so many musicians settle for the presets in digital gear without ever learning how to create their own sounds? 5. The retro trend. Why design digital gear to sound like analog gear? Why not make it sound completely different from analog gear? 6. Does music technology automatically imply that hardware and software will become obsolete? I hope these help. Mark Kata Mark@asisoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: Michael Pycraft Hughes <pycraft@elec.gla.ac.uk> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> Date: Friday, August 14, 1998 11:16 AM Subject: Suggestions, advice, help! >I'm applying for a lectureship in Music Technology at my university. > >What I'd like from you lot is suggestions for possible research themes. I >have ideas of what I'd like to do, but I'm interested in what people out >there feel is where MT needs to go next. > >Also, you industry types, my case would be VASTLY strengthened by the >suggestion of industrial collaboration. I'm currently in negotiation on >behalf of the current MT course director to get some research by a major >company (I can't say who at this point, but they're a major group at >Harman). We have a wide research base here at Glasgow, and I'm sure we >could work towards something of mutual benefit. > >Closing date is a week today, so get in touch soon! > >Thanks, > >Michael > >Dr Michael Pycraft Hughes, University of Glasgow, Glasgow UK G12 8QQ >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > "What can be done with fewer assumptions is done in vain >with more" - William of Occam (1285-1347) (now called Occam's Razor) >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > www.elec.gla.ac.uk/~pycraft pycraft@elec.gla.ac.uk >