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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: ircam?
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 17:16:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 10 17:16:19 1985
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In article <1652@decwrl.UUCP> malik@galaxy.DEC (Karl Malik ZK01-1/F22 1-1440) writes:
>	I personally would love to be involved in a discussion with
>the IRCAM folks.
>
>	BUT, I'm not so sure that our discussions would be of much
>interest to them.
>
>	IRCAM has some impressive musicians and technicians working
>there.  They certainly aren't going to be interested in questions
>about how to hook up your new Casio to a drum machine.

I haven't been terribly interested in that kind of stuff either.

>	NO sarcasm intended here - I mean it literally - What is
>the reasoning behind forwarding net.music.synth to IRCAM?  Can you
>imagine a mutually satisfying dialog developing?

I can imagine it, but then I also imagined something a little better
in net.music.synth once it split of from net.music.  At least we've
provided a means to bypass the 'favorite group of the week' type 
messages, but we are left with little but 'favorite instrument of
the week' messages.  When net.music.synth first split off, I tried
to inspire some discussions on A/D conversion, signal processing
algorithms, etc. and found that I virtually had to carry on such a
discussion with myself.

>	Possibly, a separate newsgroup should be established.  As
>I said, I *love* the idea of a dialog with IRCAM, but I fear that
>the (useful to us) theoretically/aesthetically/technically trival
>discussions of   - 'What synth under $1k to buy?', or 'Has anyone
>played on a Juno-106?'  - will leave them flat.

Just like it has been leaving me flat since net.music.synth split off
from net.music.

>	Can we rise to the challenge?  I think the rewards would
>be great.
>						- Karl Malik

Ditto.  Wish we all had TMS32020 based DSP boards in our P.C.'s so we
could trade sig-proc programs and try various algorithms etc.
Maybe we could start of by discussing some of the various digital filter
algorithms, favorites etc.  Sampling techniques (hardware) etc.

Keith Doyle
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