The State of Music Technology
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 5:10 pm
I'm writing here in search of like-minded individuals who feel that the 'big' manufacturers in the music technology have not been doing enough to bring exciting, cutting edge, new and intuitive new technologies to the market.
I personally feel that the pace of development has been much too incremental between products in recent years. Most workstations are still primarily based on S&S (Sampling & Synthesis) and only expand with better 'specs'.
A good example is additive & Fourier synthesis. Very powerful, if it can be harnessed correctly. The most recent hardware example is from the mid 90s!
Even with seemingly 'obvious' developments to existing technology, companies like KORG, Roland, and Yamaha seem slow on the take-up of the benefits of these, still living in the 80s & 90s.
Anyway, I have many ideas on how to produce fresh, new, exciting, innovative, and most importantly still intuitive products (something which KORG seems to be lacking on recently).
If you feel the same and want to work to bring such ideas to market, perhaps we can work together towards a common goal.
I'm not necessarily looking to form an organisation or business at this point. At first we should research and look into feasibility ideas and perhaps prototype software.
There are needs for input in all kinds of fields: software design, hardware & electronic, design & manufacture, and also more business orientated roles.
My personal primary focus would be on hardware products but software should also be a possibility, being of fairly large market importance in this modern world. I'm not just talking about purely synthesis technologies either, but MIDI (or other protocols), sequencing, effects, algorithmic composition (and other realtime transforms), hardware and interfaces, even web technologies, etc. really the technologies covered should be vast.
If you are interested, please PM me here or contact me through the form on my website.
I personally feel that the pace of development has been much too incremental between products in recent years. Most workstations are still primarily based on S&S (Sampling & Synthesis) and only expand with better 'specs'.
A good example is additive & Fourier synthesis. Very powerful, if it can be harnessed correctly. The most recent hardware example is from the mid 90s!
Even with seemingly 'obvious' developments to existing technology, companies like KORG, Roland, and Yamaha seem slow on the take-up of the benefits of these, still living in the 80s & 90s.
Anyway, I have many ideas on how to produce fresh, new, exciting, innovative, and most importantly still intuitive products (something which KORG seems to be lacking on recently).
If you feel the same and want to work to bring such ideas to market, perhaps we can work together towards a common goal.
I'm not necessarily looking to form an organisation or business at this point. At first we should research and look into feasibility ideas and perhaps prototype software.
There are needs for input in all kinds of fields: software design, hardware & electronic, design & manufacture, and also more business orientated roles.
My personal primary focus would be on hardware products but software should also be a possibility, being of fairly large market importance in this modern world. I'm not just talking about purely synthesis technologies either, but MIDI (or other protocols), sequencing, effects, algorithmic composition (and other realtime transforms), hardware and interfaces, even web technologies, etc. really the technologies covered should be vast.
If you are interested, please PM me here or contact me through the form on my website.
