Re: [microsound] KYMA/symbolic sound?

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:13 AM -0800 3/21/03, <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>As for my relatively uniformed opinion, most of the functions 
>available can be achieved natively for cheaper.

Perhaps individually, but once you add up the price of multiple 
plug-ins you'd be in the thousands of dollars anyway. These would 
also be limited to the power of the CPU. With Kyma you could use a 
modest computer as the programming interface and then add DSP cards 
as your needs and budget increased.

>I think that the age of dedicated DSP cards might be coming to end.

Then again it might not. At NAMM this January there were a number of 
dedicated processor boxes that had required computer software, so 
there's a trend toward hybrid (HW/SW) systems. At least one of these 
outboard boxes was analog, which is a more sensible solution to 
getting certain analog sounds than modeling them digitally.
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