On Wednesday 09 January 2008 20:03:40 Ken Restivo wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 12:00:42AM -1000, david wrote: > > Simon Williams wrote: > > I've been using and loving the Yamaha audio patches for years. Someone > > else on the list mentioned that a lot of the Yamaha audio sound is due > > to the licensing of some very sophisticated wave guide audio patents > > from MIT or some college like that. I suppose you could read the patents > > and figure it out, but ... > > Wasn't it CCRMA at Stanford? > > Converging with the thread about Tapestrea (which uses ChucK), I recall > seeing license blurbs all over the ChucK source code that mentioned that > the (now expired, I hope) patents were owned by Yamaha and had been > developed at Stanford, IIRC. > > -ken I believe the patents developed at Stanford, if I remember correctly about 400 in number, was known as Sondius. Anyway here are some links: http://otl.stanford.edu/tech/sondius.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/pr/97/970708staccato.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/pr/97/970709sondiusxg.html How much of this made its way to market through Yamaha, I do not know. I believe the " YMF nnn " series of chips had some this in the firmware. I suspect that this may have been part of the problem in Linux audio to really support those cards. As I understood it, was while most of the market was relying upon samplings, the Yamaha chips were dynamically sound synthesis. These presumptions, may be not correct. Hope this helps. Tom _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
