This kind of has the sound of someone playing an acoustic guitar patch on a keyboard. It seems to lack the expressive dynamics you would expect with a guitar, almost like the velocity is clamped.
A new instrument found unusual success
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is not what a patent is for. It may unfortunately currently be legal, but that isn't its true purpose.
Please explain its true purpose then. The "exclusive rights in exchange for publishing" seems to have been the very idea behind patents for hundreds of years, all the way back to Jerusalem and Venezia according to Wikipedia, and also defined as such in the modern patent systems established later, in the US and elsewhere.
IIUC, U.S. patents were constructed to be an immigration policy tool. “Come to America, get paid for your knowledge!” This would encourage people who knew how to build and make things to immigrate to the U.S. Note that patents are an optional part of the constitution; not an inherent right of inventors.
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#43Beautiful. Maybe it’s just the style of music but the example video is very reminiscent of Disasterpeace’s work:
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
A patent is a time-limited monopoly on an invention, so yes, preventing others from making the same thing is exactly what a patent is for. The idea being that during this time, the inventor can either be the sole source of the widget, thus profiting from it directly, or licence it to someone else. Either case means that they get "compensated fairly".
That is not what a patent is for. It may unfortunately currently be legal, but that isn't its true purpose.
state sanctioned monopolies enshrined in the constitution are exactly what I find alluring about patents
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#45I am surprised this thing counts as new. Finger-style playing is one of common techniques. Guitars with increased range is not something new as well.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the same sense that "Dropbox is a version of curlftpfs plus SVN, and still it got funded!".
but dropbox is not patented and you are not prevented from making your own CurlFtpFS and SVN system
That wasn't the point of the analogy though.
It was to drive attention to a dismissive attitude "this is just X+Y, which already exist".
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#47This kind of has the sound of someone playing an acoustic guitar patch on a keyboard. It seems to lack the expressive dynamics you would expect with a guitar, almost like the velocity is clamped.
It is noise gated, which could be what you’re hearing. (This lets you play more piano like and not have to mute all those open strings)
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#48This kind of has the sound of someone playing an acoustic guitar patch on a keyboard. It seems to lack the expressive dynamics you would expect with a guitar, almost like the velocity is clamped.
It is noise gated, which could be what you’re hearing. (This lets you play more piano like and not have to mute all those open strings)
That's probably part of it - also seems like if they're mostly doing a pressing rather than a plucking action it would result in this sound?
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#49Absolutely awful they are patent trolling so hard with this Feels exactly like E-Ink Let us have cheap copies for the masses!
I'm not a fan of patents, but in that case, it's not like some bigco seeking to perpetually extend monopolistic rights on some product - the inventor is alive, they made what seems like a genuine contribution to the world, and that contribution is very concrete and complete - not some hollow vaguely generic not directly usable "design". So it's actually a case where patents are a good fit: the inventor gets to decide…
> I'm not a fan of patents, but in that case, it's not like some bigco seeking to perpetually extend monopolistic rights on some product - the inventor is alive, they made what seems like a genuine contribution to the world, and that contribution is very concrete and complete - not some hollow vaguely generic not directly usable "design".
If the inventor keeps the prices too high, then it is basically the same as ensuring that the public can't have it. That's not good. Inventors and investors should be compensated, and cheap alternatives from other manufacturers should appear.
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#50Harry Partch must be grooving in his grave. Bit of shame he didn't live another 20 years, really, it'd be interesting to see what he could have done with more electronics and synths.