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From: kissell@flairvax.UUCP (Kevin D. Kissell)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: What is a Lyricon?
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Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 17:49:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 17 17:49:59 1984
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Organization: Fairchild AI Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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I played one of these five or six years ago, and wasn't terribly impressed.
The lip pressure sensing was better than I expected, but the breath sensing
for dynamics was klunky and, more importantly, the synthesizer itself (as
opposed to the controlling interface) was not very good.  The filter section
(such as it was) in particular was the pits.  I saw a fellow play one a few
years back with Patrick Gleeson in San Francisco, and the thing seemed to me
to be more of an impediment than a vehicle for musical expression.  You can
do more interesting things these days by processing a real reed tone anyway.

		Kevin D. Kissell
		Fairchild Research Center
		Advanced Processor Development
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