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To: Momaw Nadon

Kurzweil as in synthesizer? Keyboard? Music Sampling? Piano?


51 posted on 11/19/2005 12:30:16 PM PST by Jo Nuvark (The Koolaid can easily be avoided. It is RED!)
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To: Jo Nuvark
Kurzweil as in synthesizer? Keyboard? Music Sampling? Piano?

Possibly. I do know that Kurzweil has done a great deal of work in the fields of voice recognition and artificial intelligence.

59 posted on 11/19/2005 12:41:36 PM PST by Momaw Nadon ("...with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.")
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To: Jo Nuvark
Yeah. He's apparently become some sort of silly huckster now.
75 posted on 11/19/2005 1:10:15 PM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: Jo Nuvark
Yeah, that's him.
84 posted on 11/19/2005 1:24:16 PM PST by Musket
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To: Jo Nuvark
Kurzweil as in synthesizer? Keyboard? Music Sampling? Piano?

I remember studying electronic music at the Berklee College of Music in 1971 with the brilliant instructor Michael Rendish.

Conventional wisdom back then was that it was not possible to build a polyphonic synthesizer keyboard (i.e. able to play more than one note at a time), because of the staggering amount of signal processing required for each key.

At the time, he was right. But as we all know, today polyphonc synthesizers are everywhere, even in the toy section at Wal-Mart.

98 posted on 11/19/2005 2:04:27 PM PST by Maceman (Fake but accurate -- and now double-sourced)
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