RE: VERY interesting article!!!

["Andy Ewen" <Andy.Ewen@trace-elliot.com>]

For more detailed explanation, go to http://magic.gibson.com/index.html
and you can read the entire specifications. This is a very serious
5-year project which has already cost many millions of $$$. 
I've worked with all members of the Magic team, and they are by far the
smartest guys I've ever dealt with; and a great laugh as well. 
Henry uses the very best people to realise these ideas, including the
lecturers at CiNMaT Berkley, which I've also had the privilege of
meeting. 
This is really exiting stuff; I've seen demos which quite frankly, were
unbelievable. One of our old friends, Adrian Legg, acoustic guitarist
par excellence, has been out with a 5.1 PA system that I designed, all
connected via 'Magic' and the results are amazing.
Andy @ Trace.

-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Hoeltje [mailto:ahoeltje@best.com]
Sent: 05 December 2001 18:20
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: VERY interesting article!!!


The article wasn't too rich with detail but they made a big claim about
no
latency - this just isn't physically possible when converting low bass
notes
to midi.  But converting analog to digital is no problem.  So my take on
it
is that the main reason for ethernet on a musical instrument would be so
the
analog to digital conversion could be done on the instrument as the
notes
are played.  This would mean every thing down stream from the player
would
need to be digital.

Now I suppose the instrument could also generate midi signals
(especially
keyboards - no conversion necessary) and those could also be sent out on
the
net.  But I believe that this is not so much a replacement for midi but
a
unification of analog and midi into a common digital transport.

Overall a pretty cool idea.  But I hope it doesn't leave poor teenage
kids
and their garage bands out in the cold.  Then again what a market this
would
create for pure retro analog instruments, effects, and amps.

-Allan


on 12/4/01 5:46 PM, Mark Sottilaro at sine@zerocrossing.net wrote:

> Could this FINALLY be the end of MIDI?  I sure do hope so.
> 
> Mark
>