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My name is Brian Whitman. I am a lapsed scientist and sound artist currently co-founder/CTO at The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company in Somerville, MA. As I work on various scaling and media search problems with detours into art projects I'll be posting details here in the hopes that I can learn from others. I'd always like to hear from you if you are working on similar things.
Aug 30th, 2009 @ 5:21 pm
Hadn’t opened a DAW in a while, this is what greeted me — the Sculpture synth from Logic 9. It’s fascinating that in the last ten years synthesizers evolved into toddlers’ busy boxes, or maybe Radio Shack 500-in-1 electronics kits. Wondering who or what is driving the features and design: I don’t see anything here either in UI or DSP that couldn’t have been done with 1999 technology — the growth has nothing to do with ability; so it’s some other external customer request, or the more bitter explanation of marketing flotsam.
Hopefully I can pull together a retrospective of VST plugin UIs and features over the years.
