Re: FIRST REPORTS BACK FROM NAMM

[KILLINFO@aol.com]

All,

In a message dated 1/21/02 2:27:12 AM, GLOBAL@cruzio.com writes:

>Also, I saw another cool program that made me wish I was a Mackie (all
>except for the price of peripherals.........Apple are you listening) 
>called
>MELODYNE (www.celemony.com).  Another German company (boy the 
>Germans seem to be kicking major bootay in the software world these 
>days), this program allows for manipulation of mono audio files that is 
>almost like midi. To complex to go into in great detail here, but it's 
ability 
>to transpose audio files over 5 octaves with no apparent artifacts 
>whatsoever and, like LIVE!, the ability to do it on the fly left the 
>avante 
>garde side of my electronica muse drooling.

I sat through this demo twice and was most impressed. It definitely got 
my "best of show" (I missed the LIVE! demo altogether unfortunately).
Otherwise, I didn't see anything particularly mind-boggling this year.
I make a habit of traveling every isle of display space. But, given the 
tenuousness of the economical environment these days, that's not 
entirely unexpected . . . or maybe I'm a little jaded in my old fartage
and wasn't looking as hard as I used to. 

I met up with a few loopfolk at the EH booth on Friday. Boy! Kim really 
does have his hair in a mohawk . . . and it really is blue. He and Andre 
LaFosse, Hans Lindauer, Chris Muir, Me (Ted Killian), and Dr. Bob Sterling
(a looping drummer pal of mine) all hung out for about nearly an hour 
chatting about stuff. It was great to meet up. I wonder who made it 
on the "official" meeting time on Saturday? Sorry I wasn't there.
But I hate crowds enough that I almost never attend the weekend 
shows any more. Thursday and Friday are bad enough already.

Anywho, that was NAMM 2002 for me. Now back to the real world.

Best,

Ted Killian