Negative IQ of sender (POL)

John Loffink wrote:

> > >Increasing the number of "Partials" will not solve your problem,
> > >because you'll have a new one -- the sampler's internal RAM will
> > >not have enough storage to handle the increase. Program parameters
> > >are most likely to be stored in 64K to 512K local RAM inside the
> > >unit, not your 32M to 128M sample RAM. If you now ask
> > >manufacturers to increase the local RAM just for microtonal
> > >support, I can tell you that none of them will do it because that
> > >increases the price of the hardware.

And I, like a complete twonk, completely mis-read what he'd said.
For some unknown reason I thought he was saying that more 'partials'
would eat into available sample RAM, rather than system/program RAM
(or ROM?). This puts into question the positive rating of my IQ and
my ability to read plain English. So I'm very sorry for the
redundant explanations in the last digest. And John, contrary to
what I said, wasn't remotely wrong.

John wrote:

>>> My points are 1) for
> > >microtonal scales to be implemented in mass produced instruments it must be
> > >economically realistic for the manufacturers to do so, and 2) for microtonal
> > >scales to be used by non-specialists it must be as easy as possible for them
> > >to be changed. You can't accomplish either of these by defining microtonal
> > >scales at the "Partial" or zone level.

I wrote:

> I agree entirely with the general points 1 and 2. I'm unconvinced
> however about the last sentence of this paragraph.

John's reasoning is: to greatly extend the number of
'partials'/zones available would take up too much system memory,
causing the cost of the unit to increase too much. That seems
suprising - but it may be true (?)

Except that, as I understand, the E4 does not have this architectural
feature (ie., more 'partials' do eat into sample RAM, they certainly
did on the EIII). The drawbacks on the E4 are rather : cost, tuning
resolution, speed of setting up the zones/samples for ATS.

Apologies again for my inability to read..........

Patrick Ozzard-Low


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New to Juxtapostion Ezine

http://www.virtulink.com/immp/jux/j_index.htm

Joe Monzo's reviews of

When Mozart Was A Nine Year Old
Presented by SoHo Baroque Opera Company, New York City
Monday, March 16, 1998

and

Dean Drummond's score to
F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh
as performed by Newband, March 14, 1998
The Kitchen, New York, N.Y.

Brian Eno's Music For Airports
as performed by Bang On A Can
at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
March 7, 1998 also microtonalists:
Annie Gosfield, Glenn Branca and Arnold Dreyblatt

Visitation #8

Some new releases by

Unit 25: Dark Red - Larry Kucharz, minimalist
Stonehenge for Eternity - Tales: ambient space rock
Ravens In Moonlight - The Tunnel Singer: Lee Ellen Shoemaker
with digeridoo and percussion

Ellen Band, sound artist
at Lotus Music and Dance Studio, January 23, 1998

Alan Lockwood

Resonance and conjuction:
the paintings of Reinhardt and Mondrian at PaceWildenstein

Tom Hamilton - Sebastian's Shadow

and a review I wrote months ago and never turned into a wab page:

Experimental Intermedia's
Eighth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One
December 1997
Phil Niblock , Ben Manley, Jens Brand, Dan Evans Farkas,
Victoria Jordanova, Jaroslav Koran and Michael Delia



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