Wolfgang Lonien <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxx> > Hi Christoph, > > so this includes *me*? As I explained in an earlier post, I did MIDI > when we were still using DOS, but audio was (at that time) far without > reach - with *any* operating system. Audio was still pre-ADAT, so we're > talking 24-track tape machines... Just to pick a nit: Audio predates MIDI by about 30 years. Being out of reach I'll agree with, for sure!, but there were tube D/A converters being built in the late 50's at MIT (meaning the resistor ladder type guts, not any "audiophile" type of thing). Tom Stockham and the Soundstream were pre-MIDI, there were various things going on in Europe, and the Synclavier was doing sampling and resynthesis (not sampling playback as we know it) before MIDI. MIDI was '84-ish, and coincides roughly with the release of the Ensoniq Mirage -- the first sampler for under $10,000, but there were a lot of expensive computer systems (standalone or general purpose) that knew something about audio. Cheers, Phil Mendelsohn -- Dept. of Mathematics, 342 Machray Hall U. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2 Office: 446 Machray Hall, 204-474-6470 http://www.rephil.org/ phil at rephil dot org
