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  • From: Sil Greene <quack AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Zenph Studios?
  • Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:34:56 -0500 (EST)



from Michael Czeiszperger:

I came across this local company in the latest issue of the Triangle TechJournal, and it looks really interesting.

http://www.zenph.com


That's not a description, that's the biggest load of marketing manure
I've seen in a while. OK, maybe not the biggest, but "Rachmaninoff,
Horowitz, Glenn Gould, Fats Waller, and Thelonious Monk can literally
play 'live' again"?? please. unless they've managed to perfect
resurrections, this statement is patently false, and it aids any other claims about their technology straight into the "useless" category.

"building advanced software for [understanding] the fine nuances with
which musicians play" _almost_ makes sense. except that they add "understanding and recreating", which is just vaporware horseshit.

hmmm... http://www.zenph.com/recording.html

so basically they've taken fine concert pianos and turned them into
midi controllers, and their breakthrough is that instead of each
keypress generating one midi event, it generates seven. higher
precision makes sense but sounds a little ... empty, compared to
the marketing claims.

"Professional musicians consider the playback as indistinguishable
from live performance." *snort*

But note these are all pianists who've sat down at Zenph's pianos. The aforementioned Gould, Waller, and Monk didn't get to play those pianos. How is that expensive midi controller going to play it back without
recording it first?

i ... love ... hy--ay--aype! i ... love ... hy--ay--aype! can't wait to see what else marketing comes up with...

--s :)








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