Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] EVO status...was: (open-source like hardware)
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 15:52:03 EET
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:07:09 +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:43:52 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > > You could check-out Akai. I think they had a product post S1000
> > > which could play very long samples using this technique
> > > (was it the S1500?).
>
> Yes, that rings a bell. I think it was on the S3000 at least, it was only
> stereo+monophonic, but if it had instant start it must have chached (the
> scsi controller in the 3000 was very slow).
--- quote from s3000xl manual, pg. 261 ---
Start:
Here, you can set the method by which a take will commence playback.
The options are:
IMMEDIATE - This will cause the take to commence playback as soon as
you press PRME - F8.
MIDI NOTE - This will cause the take to playback when it receives the MIDI
note number set in the note: field described below after
PRME is pressed.
--- end quote ---
From my memories of working with akais I think this means they were
pre-chaching for playback. You can set the start postion in mm:ss:ff.
I haven't read the patent, but if someone can veryify this (I don't have an
akai at the moment) I think we have enough grounds to defend any
prechaching we might want to do.
- Steve
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