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Old 30.11.2012, 12:01 AM
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Yes, Timo has nailed great features. I had thought also of the X/Y joystick for wave morphing too, but found out something interesting from person have been communicating with at Dave Smith Instruments in that the reason you do not SEE very many, if any "X/Y Joysticks" on anything BUT Korg's predominately, is that Korg OWNS the patent rights to the X/Y Joystick in it's physical form--did not know about the use thereof in the virtual synth sense. This came up because some of DSI's team to this day were working for firstly yamaha then korg in developing the Wavestation synths after SCI went away and before DSI's incarnation--was talking to them about how assigning the sysex/midi cc's of certain parameters in Evolver to be manipulated by being assigned to the Korg Kontrol 49 I have used to control my Wavestation SR with would be a cool feature to have been incorp. in Evolver from onset....that's when it came up about how korg has a tight grip (mind the pun) on patent of it's use....interesting things one finds out down the walk of knowledge. BTW--if The Solaris Synth has an X/Y Joystick, Don has worked "intimately" with Korg for a while and given The Solaris having a very limited customer base. I just cannot get the same responsiveness out of an X/Y Touchpad for life of me!!
I mentioned this because it made me wonder how crazy it must be for any given softsynth to obtain an international patent on a given synthesis method and with that said, wonder if Total Integration has a fine gray line of seperation from "hardware controller" and "software"? A nerd of sorts would like to know
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