Temecula DSP Releases the Ursa Major MSP-126: Only 70 Units Ever Made

[audiojunkie]

Interesting from a historical perspective, but not exactly useful, unique, or pleasing from a production one.

I guess in some ways you could say that. In other ways though, there are particular sounds were created by running audio through these particular devices that can only be replicated through something modeled or similar. Rather than a historical perspective, I think of it more from the respective of replication of the sound--but then, maybe that is historical?? Who knows. But I think of it in the same sense that you think of your TAL-JX8 and the Roland JX-8P. It's useful if you want that particular sound.

[jamcat]

But that "particular sound" in this case is just a short, metallic echo. Toilet reverb, if you will.

[audiojunkie]

But that "particular sound" in this case is just a short, metallic echo. Toilet reverb, if you will.

Oh, you are referring to just the one device. The one I'm most interested in is the Ensoniq one they make.

[Uncle E]

Oh, you are referring to just the one device. The one I'm most interested in is the Ensoniq one they make.

Please post that in the Deep/4 thread:

viewtopic.php?t=628382

[audiojunkie]

Oh, you are referring to just the one device. The one I'm most interested in is the Ensoniq one they make.

Please post that in the Deep/4 thread:

viewtopic.php?t=628382

LOL No thanks! I just read, not 5 minutes ago, from @Jamcat in a different thread that the software was Vibe Coded. I wasn't aware of that. Apparently there was a full-on witch hunt, complete with lit torches and pitchforks. I've reassessed my desire for the software.

[Krakatau]

really ???

Really what? What's your question?

don't pay too much attention, I was just wondering of what was the real dimension of the faked information there ?

[jamcat]

Christopher Moore founded Ursa Major in 1977 after four years at Lexicon, where he had grown frustrated with safe product design

Nah... you shouldn't trust Ai.

really ???

The dates at Lexicon are correct, but it was the “safe products” of KLH (the company Moore was at prior to Lexicon) that prompted him to leave KLH for Lexicon, not safe products at Lexicon that led to him leaving Lexicon to found Ursa Major.

“During my four years at KLH, there were shifts in upper management and innovation gave way to the design of safe products — "me-too" products.”

https://tapeop.com/interviews/65/christopher-moore

[jens]

Christopher Moore founded Ursa Major in 1977 after four years at Lexicon, where he had grown frustrated with safe product design

Nah... you shouldn't trust Ai.

really ???

The dates at Lexicon are correct, but it was the “safe products” of KLH (the company Moore was at prior to Lexicon) that prompted him to leave KLH for Lexicon, not safe products at Lexicon that led to him leaving Lexicon to found Ursa Major.

“During my four years at KLH, there were shifts in upper management and innovation gave way to the design of safe products — "me-too" products.”

https://tapeop.com/interviews/65/christopher-moore

Exactly - and I only looked it up because when reading the blurb I immediately knew that it must be complete nonsense. Lexicon in its early days were digital pioneers, so that bit makes absolutely zero sense to anyone who knows the first thing about the history of digital audio equipment (not to mention that Christopher Moore in this interview explains in detail what exactly he means with "safe products", a term that without this definition is rather vague, to say the least) - which the developer prides himself of honoring with all of his products.
I.e. it appears unlikely that he even just proof-read the text after Ai generated it - and since he's also using Ai to develop his products (which in an of itself is not automatically a bad thing)...

you get my drift.

Yeah, that's sloppy indeed - rejected - next!

[jamcat]

I’m not totally convinced that error is absolute incontrovertible evidence of AI authorship, though. The information is just as easy for a human to mix up, particularly since Moore was asked about both companies in the same question, and even worked at both KLH and Lexicon for 4 years each.

There is also the factor that transposing the notion of “safe products” onto Lexicon was just “too good to check” because it so nicely fits the desired narrative of the developer that scrappy Ursa Major products like the one being modeled were more wild and dangerous than those from a stodgy and cautious industry leader like Lexicon. Hence why you NEED this plugin!