From: skybuck2000@hotmail.com   
      
   The Future of Music (Software synthesizer focused operating system)   
      
   The vision for the future of music will be something like this:   
      
   Mostly driven by enhancements in multi-core technology and audio processing   
   and synthesizer software emulation.   
      
   The billion dollar question is what is more efficient:   
      
   Sampling/recording music productions   
      
   VS   
      
   Emulating real instruments and playing them in real time according to some   
   instructions and instrument settings.   
      
   It could be that collecting all software synthesizers might be more storage   
   efficient than recording music.   
      
   Thus limited storage space will ultimately force the music world into a more   
   efficient and compact format.   
      
   Currently MP3, FLAC, WAV is very inefficient and uses large ammounts of   
   storage space.   
      
   On the other hand MIDI, MOD, XM, SAP and such require much less storage space   
   per song.   
      
   However MIDI does not record the synthesizers used, or the synthesizers   
   settings, nor effects applied and such.   
      
   Therefore what is needed is consolidation of all this technology, the software   
   synthesizers, the settings, and   
   so forth.   
      
   Basically the future of music is a MUSIC driven/focused OPERATING SYSTEM.   
      
   (Where software synthesizers are the new "drivers")   
      
   (Perhaps these software synthesizers can be integrated into existing windows   
   driver architecture, if not a change of the operating system might be   
   necessary or a new one developed :))   
      
   Like Microsoft Windows consolidated hardware developments and captured all of   
   it's drivers and settings and such.   
      
   The future operating system that will be necessary for music is an operating   
   system which collects/consolidates   
   all these software synthesizer and introduces a new file storage format that   
   can store/record the synthesizer   
   settings, also known in the music industry as "patches".   
      
   The new file storage format will have to be some kind of mix of MIDI and   
   patches and such.   
      
   My expectation is that users will start demanding this kind of technology and   
   will start preferring it also   
   because it can render much higher quality music in real time.   
      
   Plus the analog software synthesizer feel more alive, and might render the   
   music slightly different depending   
   on CPU load and maybe even CPU temperatures which could be very interesting to   
   listen to.   
      
   This means that software companies like Microsoft and Google and maybe even   
   Apple have A LOT OF WORK TO DO   
   in the coming decades to create such a brand new software synthesizer FOCUSED   
   operating system !   
      
   Good luck !   
      
   And may the square and saw tooth waves be with yo ! Alwayzzzzz ! =D   
      
   Bye for now,   
     Skybuck.   
      
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