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sorry to be so cliche ridden,but -knowledge is power-ignorance is bliss-U get what U pay 4 goinloopy stanner ---------- >From: Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com> >To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >Subject: Re: What the heck is Behringer doing? >Date: Sun, Jun 10, 2001, 2:04 PM > >At 10:23 PM +0200 6/10/01, Martin Tauchen wrote: > >>If we trace it really strict and puristic,the whole digital Music >products >>were ripped off from Standford University.FM Synthesis was developed >>there in the seventies,a first commercial product-the DX7 was >>released in 1983. >>The same for phyical Modelling.Developed in the early eighties and >>manifested as consumertool in 1993 -again Yamaha with VL1. > >Not ripped off in these cases. Yamaha has a long-standing set of >licensing agreements with Stanford, dating to John Chowning's 1975 >linear FM patent. Physical modeling was similarly licensed from >Stanford. > >I'm not aware of any claims against Yamaha of infringement. In fact, >my impression of the company is generally positive. They have a good >reputation for supporting research and education, and I've personally >found them (and by this I mean the individuals I've dealt with) to be >cordial and even generous. > >In contrast, I have no such warm and fuzzy feelings for the rippers >of the world, such as Behringer and Fernandes. > >That isn't to say there aren't problems. When Yamaha secured patents >on linear FM applications to musical instrument design, this meant >that other manufacturers were obliged to either pay them licensing >fees or cease to use the technique in their own instruments. Some >smaller manufacturers, such as Buchla, had already been using FM, but >didn't think to apply for a patent. > >Another case that I have problems with is Coda's patents on >interactive computer music and score following. They struck a deal >with Roger Dannenberg, who had the foresight to secure a patent in >1985, and Coda insisted that their patents applied to all score >following algorithms. Other researchers who had independently arrived >at score following were in theory obliged to pay Coda for a license. >-- > >______________________________________________________________ >Richard Zvonar, PhD >(818) 788-2202 >http://www.zvonar.com >http://RZCybernetics.com >http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone >http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz >