SV: Re: SV: [sdiy] Re: designers timeline, Kawai!

[Michael Bacich]

On Jan 11, 2007, at 3:46 PM, karl dalen wrote:

> What happened with the PC recording thing,
> noone else interested?

Nothing happened with it, at least with Kawai.  I don't know what  
happened to the guys who designed the thing.  They might have done  
some kind of deal with the WaveFrame company (makers of a high-end  
digital audio workstation in the mid-1990's, based on Silicon  
Graphics computers).

Kawai's engineers were too busy at the time with other projects to do  
any R&D on the digital recording idea.  Many of them were working on  
technologies that would eventually become the K5000 additive synth --  
which, while somewhat technologically and musically interesting,  
could only be considered to have been a failure in the marketplace.