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At 9:44 PM -0600 10/27/97, Grover Sheffield wrote: >At 01:34 PM 10/22/97 -0700, you wrote: >>Microsoft is pushing both firewire and USB, and both are supposed to be >part >>of Windows 98. USB will be on everything, while firewire is a high >bandwidth >>option for medium and high-end machines, especially those for multimedia >>applications. Sort of like how now, every machine has a printer port, but >>not everything has ethernet or scsi. Firewire is supposed to replace >things >>like scsi, parallel ports, and ethernet for some applications. It will be >>used for audio, digital video, disk drives, dvd drives, scanners, >printers, >>digital cameras, etc. In this context, musical instruments are another pc >>peripheral and would be expected to have this interface too. > > >Kim, > WOW. From a non-EE perspective, you've e-mailed some pretty >provocative prose about firewire and MIDI. So... when do I look for >on-the-fly looping capabilities (with foot control!) plugged into a >notebook-style computer? Will Digitech, Boomerang, Oberheim EP, etc. >continue to be the most best looping tools for several years? I think devices like these have plenty of years left in them. A dedicated item can always beat a general purpose one. What you will see is the continued blurring of the lines between PCs and consumer electronics, appliances, etc. The PC will expand off the desktop boundary, and other devices (like musical instruments) will acquire more pc-like features, and will more easily connect to them. Thats not to say things become more complicated to use, on the contrary, average items should become smarter and make themselves easier to use. (except when microsoft is involved, natch. :-) ) > Also sounds like MIDI is becoming dinosaur-ish. As a guitar-MIDI- >dabbler (AXON), I'm fascinated. I'd love to hear more about what you see >coming. well, I'm playing an acoustic guitar in between sentences, so what do I know? I hear that techno with country samples is the next fad, they call it barnhouse. A 303 and a tele is all you need. >Thanks again for all your looper e-mail work and the looping >comments/information. BTW, DID YOU visit Tom at Oberheim?? I visited Tom at Oberheim. I often visit Tom Oberheim, but not at Oberheim. I used to see Buchla at g-wiz, but I haven't seen don or g-wiz in some time. I enjoyed seeing JT and his unique perspective again. I'm more likely to visit cnmat at ucb than ccrma, and I certainly wouldn't object to a trip to ircam. anyway.... Yes, they shipped me back to Gnashville, where I whipped their butts into an echoplexian fervor. :-) kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com