Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site flairvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!flairvax!kissell From: kissell@flairvax.UUCP (Kevin D. Kissell) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: What is a Lyricon? Message-ID: <334@flairvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 17:49:59 EST Article-I.D.: flairvax.334 Posted: Fri Feb 17 17:49:59 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Feb-84 05:55:03 EST References: <958@cbosgd.UUCP>, <6765@unc.UUCP> Organization: Fairchild AI Lab, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 15 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 uucp: {ihnp4 decvax}!decwrl!\ >flairvax!kissell {ucbvax sdcrdcf}!hplabs!/