Monday 30 June 2008 Jay Vaughan wrote: > > 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 ..
This is very, very interesting news :) Very interesting indeed :) -- ..Dan // Leinir.. http://www.leinir.dk/ Co- existence or no existence - Piet Hein _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
