Inter-Freerunner Connectivity
Jay Vaughan
jayv at synth.net
Mon Jun 30 16:06:59 CEST 2008
> i just attended a convention where one of the events was an
> experimental
> music set by one of the attendees using a Tenori-On (and jamming
> with another
> attendee on a digeridoo[1]),
Yes, the tenori-on is definitely do-able with the OM phone .. I used
to work for a major synth mfr, specifically working on a linux-for-
music-gear distribution, but now I work for THALES making embedded
systems for trains.
I would love to work on an OM-compatible synth platform, but until
then, I'll just keep working on OM-based music software to release
shortly .. ;)
> and during the session it struck me that the
> OpenMoko platform would be able to do something similar to this, or
> at the
> very least be able to provide some nifty stuff in the same sort of
> vein of
> thought - maybe not as powerful (since the Tenori-On is a dedicated
> sound
> device, and thus has been able to be geared for this wrt multiple
> voices and a
> very powerful sound chip and such), but... you know, just a mind-
> burp, really,
> but still :)
You really *don't* need a very powerful system to do interesting
audio, and Yamaha (who I have also worked for in the past) know this
very, very well .. there is a lot of hype about it, sure, because DSP
is inherently difficult for a lot of people to grasp, but we can do a
lot of interesting things with the OM hardware, for sure ..
FWIW, the Nintendo DS currently has some exciting apps being written
for it, in the music-making department, and they work very well. Some
of these apps will make their way over to OM once Freerunner starts
getting a little traction, I imagine ..
;
--
Jay Vaughan
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