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Digital Musical Instrument Design: The Art of Compromise

Despite tremendous increases in computational power per dollar, most classical signal processing algorithms still require more calculation that is practical to allow their implementation in a commercial realtime multichannel instrument. Hence the goal of the electronic musical instrument designer moves beyond the selection of a known algorithm to finding tradeoffs which will only marginally detract from audio quality while allowing cost effective implementation.: Analysis of existing products shows both successes and failures in this task. This in turn indicates what approach to take in considering the future of commercial electronic musical instrument design.

Author: Rossum, Dave
Affiliation: E-mu Systems, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA
AES Conference:5th International Conference: Music and Digital Technology (May 1987)
Paper Number:5-003 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Music and Digital Technology

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