A stupid thought...

[No name]

Last night I heard a long thing on Nanotechnology. Bet your asking why in the hell I posted in this forum about it? Well, I heard about the battery by a specific company created using Nantechnology, It recharges 80% within a minute. And me being addicted to music technology, I asked myself "I wonder what this could hold for music DSP or anything music related?". Any Thoughts on it? It's always best to apply new technologies to a certain field. For instance with Synths, when they first switched over to digital OSC. Then obviously using computers as a DAW. I was just wondering if anyone has had thoughts about it before?

[whyterabbyt]

Handy for laptops, and erm, portable stuff with batteries.

Erm....

[Cosmic Bandito]

For what it's worth BT talks alot of nano-shite....not to power a DAW but utilizing nano-seconds as a creative tool (that's why his music is so good )

[Derek up North]

I think nanotechnology has a lot more going for it (in the long term) than just better batteries. Using a grid of tiny processors (generically known as "smart dust") could be very efficient for synthesis and effects as the calculations needed tend to decompose nicely which suits parallel (and, therefore, massively parallel) processing more than serial processing. Imagine having a desktop/notebook computer (call it a PC if you want to but it won't be like today's PCs) which can dynamically reallocate 512 of it's 1024 processors to a particularly taxing convolution reverb calculation after it's finished using them to calculate the sound you want to make while the rest are continuing to shape the rest of your sounds.

You can forget magnetic discs too - there are far more efficient, physically smaller but larger capacity devices on the way.

I reckon 7-10 years before this is mainstream. Like any new technology there will be a lot of dead ends, misinformation and high costs for the early adopters but it will start to become part of everyday computing over time.

Regards,

Derek.

[The Chase]

i would say 7-10 years before it appears, but I highly doubt it will be mainstream in that time.

[Derek up North]

i would say 7-10 years before it appears, but I highly doubt it will be mainstream in that time.

It's already appeared (i.e. is working in the labs at the desired scale). There's no mass production capability yet, hence my guess of 7-10 years before real "buy it in the high street" commercial availability.

Wonder if there'll still be a KvR in 7-10 years - if there is, and it's got a well organised archive, then one of us will be able to say "there you go - told you so"

Regards,

Derek.

[Derek up North]

Say this today (not nano technology but the next generation of small magnetic disc drives):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4411649.stm

Terabyte iPods here we come

Regards,

Derek.

[duncanparsons]

With smart dust synths there could be the prospect of sneezing and a whole gig needs to be abandoned.. Or the lead singer accidentally snorts the latest patch and is alarmed to find his vocal ability enhanced by a deeper moog filter. "Man he can really do that 'Cher' effect can't he" "You should hear it when he screams like a..."

I personally think it not the greatest step forward ever. People assume that new is progress - I'm not convinced. I'm a programmer, and have the bizarre situation everyday that once the electrics are off at the end of the day, there is no evidence of me having done anything. A Carpenter has a table to show, a plumber can point you to your new bathroom. I can't even be sure which electrons I affected today, or where they are now.

DSP

[CypherOne]

I'm a programmer, and have the bizarre situation everyday that once the electrics are off at the end of the day, there is no evidence of me having done anything. A Carpenter has a table to show, a plumber can point you to your new bathroom. I can't even be sure which electrons I affected today, or where they are now.

DSP

OT, but I know what you mean. I have a unrewarding job that pays the bills, other than that I line the pockets of the board and shareholders, wow. It struck me most when my daughter was born. There we were in theatre at 4am on a Sunday morning, surrounded by excellent staff and I thought "apart from maybe the anaesthetist, I probably earn more than all of you, which can't be right".

[Emerald Tablet]

Further miniaturisation and unlimited processing capability is absolute subordinate to a simple elemental thing like idea .. nanobots in bloodstreams cleaning up the human body and nanobots in the brain compensating human shortcomings sure sound like fanciful. Than again cold fusion would be fanciful to but i guarantee you the moment it's there the
atomic handgun will be a fact to. Us human beings have the strange quality to put up something just as destructive when we build something constructive. don't even try to fathom human nature - it's fascination for evil and good will always be there and i find the sticks and stones very comforting when compared to nowadays technology. Now sit down and imagine what Adolph Hitler would have done with nowadays technology. Don't you think Mussolini would have easily succeeded in his plan to kill all the citizens of Ethiopia ? I have a love hate relationship with computers. I find all nowadays technology as fascinating as freighting. As for music - the computer often fails me - my voice and my mind never did. I'm curious what the next 10 year will bring, in the meanwhile most science fiction series from the 60`s opening with the year 2005 often show a very outdated state of technology. Fingerscan doors - c'mon we all know cutting off fingers is so much more easy as cutting out eyeballs ... Disks - c'mon why use disks if we have wireless - control panels - damn they sure imagined them to be huge

[Mr. Tunes]

For what it's worth BT talks alot of nano-shite....not to power a DAW but utilizing nano-seconds as a creative tool (that's why his music is so good )

BT is the Derek Zoolander of audio production.