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1994.02.18 Intel Development extension #3. Support OEM Licensing.
1994.03.16 Intel Development extension #4. Unified sound bankand editor, Pentium
optimization, reverb.
1994.07.29 Intel Development extension #5. MIDI and Wave mixer. MediaVision
hardware port.
1994.08.17 Intel Development extension #6. User control interface, ESS and
Opti hardware ports.
Virtually Wrong
They chose VS to mean Virtual Synthesizer (not Vector Synthesis);
an appellation which has achieved the status of annoying error.
In common usage virtual means "sort of." Like, virtual
reality is sort of reality. So, a virtual synthesizer is supposedly
sort of a real hardware synthesizer. This is obviously stupid,
since the sounds created are synthetic either way.
Btw, the correct usage derives from "virtual machine"
which means that the early computer had an overlay to make each
user think that they were virtually using a different computer.
A virtual reality is accordingly not a sort of reality, but a
construct that is rich enough to allow each user a unique viewpoint.
So, a virtual synthesizer is one synthesizer that appears to be
many separate ones; and that is exactly the description of the
contemporary multi-timbral MIDI instrument which is in
fact one synthesizer with the now developed MIDI logic to appear
as up to 16 channels minimum.
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1994.12.02 U. S. Pat #5,977,469
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