On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 07:27:36 +1100 Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:03:55 -0000 > "Tony Lambley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Back in the 80's people were using the Synclavier for audio on video > > productions. I know they were serious beasts, but I doubt they would have > > kept all that data in RAM. The latter Fairlights were probably similar. > > Anyone have any first hand experience of them? > > I used to work at Fairlight (long after the CMI days). I still have friends > there and one in particular knows the guts and implementation of the CMI > very well. I'll quiz him on this subject. Ok, I got word from my friend at Fairlight. He says: > I remember Fairlight talking about such a sampler technique > when I started c1989, but we never made such a product. > The Fairlight Series II/III loaded the whole sample into ram > before playback could begin. I guess the Fairlight also loads > cached the sample before playback - it is just that > the cache is the whole lot. The patent must exclude this case. > > You could check-out Akai. I think they had a product post S1000 > which could play very long samples using this technique > (was it the S1500?). > > I am not sure about the Synclavier Not what we had hoped for but anyway .... Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Windows NT - How to make a 100 MIPS Linux workstation perform like an 8 MHz 286" -- Christopher B. Browne
