Wow, lots of cool ideas here. I agree that there would be many benefits to developing durable, portable (presumably digital) musical instruments. Currently, they don't come close to matching the variety of tone and dynamics that you get with analog instruments. This due to limitations in both the richness of synthesized signals (which is maybe easy to solve, probably just a function of processor size), and the functionality of musician interfaces (maybe harder, because musicians rely on visual and tactile as well as auditory feedback, and because as a group they're eccentric and set in their ways and possibly unwilling to trade in, say, a tuba for a tiny keyboard device that sounds just like a tuba). Even so, despite its current limitations, electronic music has a lot of practitioners who do interesting things and are, I'm pretty sure, considered legitimate musicians by most
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1) I think you're right that richness of synthesized sound is a comparatively easy problem. CDs beat vinyl, and eventually we'll have data recordings that even a master musician won't be able to distinguish from live sound
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