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To: Douglas Webb who wrote (9224)	1/30/1998 1:57:00 AM
From: Savoirman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13925

I hope I don't complicate matters, but ... My understanding of MIDI/Sampled sounds is that they are not mutually exclusive. To transmit over the internet: 1. Audio CD sound is like trying to send pianos/guitars over the phone line, bit by painstaking bit, but 2. MIDI is like telling someone with pianos and guitars at home exactly how to play these instruments (if they have lousy instruments the music will sound lousy). 3. Wavetable synthesis is the way people stock up on their musical instruments by having a "table" of instruments at home. These can be either sampled (using small portions of real instrumental sounds) or using FM synthesis (bashing pure sine waves together to produce something similar to real instrumental sounds). Now people like Creaf have extended that to physical modelling - not just recreating the instruments but also the very space in which those instruments played. This requires trememdous processing power which the EMU10k1 affords (with the capacity to process more than 1 billion instructions per second).