On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:58:42 +0100, David Olofson wrote: > > You have to be careful because some of this stuff is covered by the > > Karplus/Stanford/Yamaha patents. IIRC non commercial use is > > allowed. > > Damn. That means I can't have a reverb in an LGPLed engine, or are > there other, useful ways of doing it? I mean, how would one go about > *not* doing it with feedback delay lines in roughly one of the > configurations covered by the patents...?
There are configurations not covered by the Patents, I think. You'd have to check. I'm pretty sure your current configuration is not covered, but some of the obvious ways to improve it probably are (obviously ;). > Reinventing this without having seen these designs hardly helped, as I > ended up with the same design anyway. This reminds all too much of > this direct-from-disk sampler thing... Yes, the pysical model/waveguide paptents have received some criticism, I'm not in a position to judge wether they are appropriate or not though. - Steve
