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HOWA EP 77 - DAVE ROSSUM

hanging out with audiophiles

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Ray Kurzweil and the Kurzweil to 50

Ray Kurzweil was on the technical advisory board of Ross and Walker designing chips for cell phones. He's absolutely an interesting guy, but his personality and mine are pretty different. There wasn't any real DSP in the emulator too. We didn't have a multiplier in it. And then Alan said, well, but look at this: He's got this thing where he's, and it's a button that you can press on the Kurzweill to 50. It changes as you play, you know, a riff on the keyboard. The timbre of the notes just suddenly changes the timbre Of the notes. You're somehow changing the timbre of this thing.

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