Re: VERY interesting article!!!

[Alex Stahl <alex@pixar.com>]

Personally, I'm quietly planning to get rich quick selling 
all-vacuum-tube ethernet hubs. :-)

A lot of people seem to be misunderstanding what this technology is. 
It's not so much about guitar synthesizers or computer simulations, 
but more about putting a preamp and analog to digital converter 
inside the instrument, then sending audio samples over a network.

Of course there is still plenty of room for purists who prefer 
specific analog effects, but for people who plug into a rack or floor 
full of digital effects, and constantly mess with routing, patching 
and mixing, this kind of approach can work really well.

Realisitically, audio-over-ethernet isn't new, and from what I read 
MaGIC is this year's acronym for pretty much the same technology 
Gibson showed last year at AES under the moniker GMICS.

Don't get me wrong, I am very much in favor of low-cost single-cable 
audio/control/power wiring schemes for music. I've been using 
Cobranet (64 channels of audio over 100BaseT) heavily over the past 
year and it's been fantastic.






At 9:09 AM +0000 12/5/01, Stephen P. Goodman wrote:
>It'll certainly be the beginning of a standards war, if previous 
>experience
>holds true.  Whaddaya think, will we have something we can all use by oh,
>2005?  Or perhaps some of us will be called "purists" for wanting to play
>our own instruments instead of a synthesizer at a listener's computer that
>approximates our own instruments for us.  Will the firefight on LD go on 
>for
>more than a week? :)
>
>
>  > Could this FINALLY be the end of MIDI?  I sure do hope so.
>  >
>  > Mark
>  >
>  > On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 11:12 AM, Mike Feeney wrote:
>  >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >     When guitars go digital:
>  > >
>  > >     http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3363342,00.html
>  > >
>  > >     they're predicting guitars to ship with ethernet ports as 
>opposed to
>  > > 1/4" analog jacks within 12-18 months.
>  > >
>  > >
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