虚拟设备--正是软件设备所欠缺的

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虚拟设备--正是软件设备所欠缺的
 
 这个月，我期盼着在我们学校的一幢新音乐楼里为一个新实验室的剪彩。此实验室将配有十二台国际模拟数学和计算机协会应用的计算机，每台装有6个不同的软件包，以便编辑、录制音乐和录像。每台的键盘上都有十几个旋钮和磁头，这些合成器将会是最的，事实上，以后也将不会再有更好的。
 五年前，我曾向世界预言说软件合成将有可能代替硬件的文章。如今，在实验室这间实验室里。这已成事实。在这个实验室里，所有的音乐生成将以软件形式出现。。
 对在许多背景下的人来说这个软件的工作室已经完全实用。小到卧室玩耍的儿童，大到跨国公司的开发者们将运用这种新的软件设备和程序来实现他们想象的愿望，模仿旧工具以及设计另人惊诧的新事物。声音的质量和界面程式从拙劣到完美，价格由零到昂贵，还有许多仅少于高层软件合成的价格，价格与质量的关系当然不可以齐平。
 由于开发者认为如果他们想真正地占据市场就必须放弃他们的产品的可视语言翻译程序，音频单位和区域贸易协定版本，仅此而已，所以生产战争停止了。我们开发了任一种人类在地球上所发现的音乐设备，以及人类将能看到的音乐设备，还有许多外层空间的设备。

Virtual Instruments-Virtually There
What's Missing in Soft Synthesis?
 
 This month, I expect to be helping to cut the ribbon on a brand-new lab in a brand-new music building at my school. It will be equipped with a dozen Intel iMacs, each loaded with six different software packages for recording and editing music, audio and video. The keyboard at each station will have a dozen or more knobs and sliders, and the synthesizer will be-well, actually there won't be any of those.
 Five years ago, I wrote in this space that software synthesis was threatening to overtake hardware. Now, at least in the case of this lab, it's a fait accompli. All of the sound generation in this lab will be in software form.
 The all-software studio has become eminently practical for great number of people in a great number of contexts.Developers ranging from kids working in their bedrooms to multinational corporations are coming up with new virtual instruments and processors for every conceivable purpose, imitating old tools and designing startling new ones. The quality of the sounds and the interfaces ranges from awful to brilliant, and the prices range from zero to well, still a lot less than you'd pay for a top-tier hardware synthesis. And the correlation between price and quality is by no means linear.