> Sorry, I've obviously missed the start of this issue. Are you saying that > sampling to HD is patented and no one can develop software that has this > functionality?
No. The patent is about reading samples *from* HD and compensating for the slowness of the initial HD seek by buffering the first few msec of all samples in ram, allowing for immediate playback while buying time for the hd to find the sample and stream the remainder. Prior to this, all samplers (that I know of) had to have the entire sample library in ram. This raises a question. Now that desktop computers can contain 2 GB of ram, has the window of opportunity closed for this technology? It might be easiest to flow around this rock. Tom
