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Just 56K? I'm not impressed. At least he could use xDSL. At 11:28 PM 4/5/99 -0400, Douglas Lawrence wrote: >>> I insist: what the hell are this telephone lines? >>> Julio. > >OK, Doug Wimbish promised that I wouldn't tell anyone, but his Cyberbass >has >an integrated 56K modem that dials out to the Internet and uses a >proprietary massively parallel computer system secretly developed by him, >Will, and Vinx. It runs a hybrid neural network/expert system on an >several >8-way Cray computers to provide incredibly accurate note triggering. This >way he can also access his rack of Emu Ultra 4 samplers for loop >generation >which has over 6 hours of available sampling capability in 20-bit stereo. >It >controls the integrated Cyberbass sequencer which is capable over >10,000,000 >note capacity at 1/1,000 ppq. It also helps power the over 10,000 pattern >arppegiator on-board the Cyberbass. Normally this couldn't be handled by >standard network HTTP protocols due to line chatter, so they had to write >a >fully interactive piping data stream that integrates with a customized >MIDI >engine to handle these types of data loads over 56K. You didn't think that >he could really ~play~ some of that stuff, did you? > >That's the real secret of how just three guys can sound like a whole >orchestra! BTW, those really aren't Wavedrums up there ... > >Dude, it was a typo ... phone => phono = 1/4" mono jack <> RJ-11 > >Sorry to confuse you all. > >Doug. > > > ________________________________________________________ Kim Flint, MTS 408-752-9284 ATI Research kflint@atitech.com http://www.atitech.com