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Originally Posted by JimmyM I don't know Eric...it didn't sound all that much like a violin to me. it sounded kind of like a violin, but not quite. The guy should have invented a robotic arm. |
+1. And it's still MIDI based. As an experiment in robotics'ish research, that's kinda cool. But I dunno. I played on one of those Diskclavier piano's when they first came out - the modern day player piano. It was cute for about 10 minutes and it just became another computer noisemaker. Big deal. You saw how popular it got didn't you? I mean come on, everybody knows what a Diskclavier is.
I'll take a life and blood Yoyo Ma on cello over a recorded Yoyo Ma played through a mechanical cello any day of the week.
EDIT: The presentation brought back some memories of my grad school days in computer science. I did a little bit of computer music resarch back in the day. There was a white paper that was expounding how incredible that with their version of a midi-like application that you could completely fit all of Mozarts work, scores for all orchestra parts, on one little 3 1/4" floppy disc. They could play the music back through a sythesizer and that would be the end of classical recordings.
