Predictions for the Future of Audio

  • Thread starter Thread starter philbagg
  • Start date Start date
philbagg

philbagg

Just Killing Time
I just got thinkin' there of what kind of stuff we'll be able to do with audio in the next 10-20 years.

I'm sure back in the 60's, the thoughts of the capabilities we have today with digital audio would have been unthinkable. Autotune? Beat-detective? Amp simulators? Pfft.

I have a feeling that it doesn't stop here either. So what kind of things do you guys think we'll be doing in a few years with audio? Vocal simulators? :p

Have at it!
 
We will all have a Nuemman U87 surgically implanted on our heads.





:cool:
 
Both synthesis and autocomposition software will grow increasingly sophisticated to the point of human performers not being required :eek:

On the plus side, music will no longer be recorded per se, but will be created interactively with the listener(s) present.
 
They'll come out with a computer that doesn't crash or need constant upgrades.
:eek:

On top of that how about a program that listens to you and can jam with you with the same common sense as a real player. They'll probably takes real people's memory and put it in computers.

Everything wireless so there's no cables at the gig. Go further - boneless, skinless and bra-less.

The explosion in China will turn around the music industry in the rest of the world, and it will be 100 fold what it was before it went belly up.

How about a self-contained box that has a battery, memory and speaker that you can't see, it's just a cool wooden "thing" and it has tons of samples that you can trigger depending on where you hit it. An electro - cajon but all the electronics are hidden. Self contained and looks cool.

Cars that you can program to drive (like when you're drunk) coupled with the end of drug prohibition will bring about a whole new era of playing small clubs because the drunk/impaired driver problem will be solved.

Main stream science acceptance of Neal Adam's growing earth concept will result in weather and energy breakthroughs that will in turn revolutionize the electronics, weather and energy industries.

A huge amount of gold found on a nearby celestial body (Mars?) will make a space age gold rush. It will result in big corporations like Toyota getting into making spacecraft. Gold will end up being dirt cheap and revolutionize the electronics industry. Only a matter of time.

And finally, someone will bring out a cymbal sample that doesn't suck the raw one. :mad:
 
dintymoore said:
How about a self-contained box that has a battery, memory and speaker that you can't see, it's just a cool wooden "thing" and it has tons of samples that you can trigger depending on where you hit it. An electro - cajon but all the electronics are hidden. Self contained and looks cool.
Click to expand...

That's probably possible now...

... But in the future, there won't be real wood anymore. It will be synthetic wood.


On another note, I didn't realize what a cajón is at first... But after looking it up, I realized it's that thing that everyone at my college plays. I guess they're kind of cool and relatively portable, but I just want to hear a normal drum set for a change.
 
I hope there will be special, sound-proof helmets which will do away with the need for recording booths. You'll be able to record anywhere, any time.

For large instruments and drum kits, there will be a special 'recording bag' which you zip up around the musician and pump in a special sound-proof gas. You'll also be able to buy 'tuning pills'. When you swallow them, you'll automatically sing in tune.

I also think Macintosh will launch their first black 'n' silver computer.

Dr. V
 
All the high end manufacturing companies will be out of business.
 
dintymoore said:
A huge amount of gold found on a nearby celestial body (Mars?) will make a space age gold rush. It will result in big corporations like Toyota getting into making spacecraft. Gold will end up being dirt cheap and revolutionize the electronics industry. Only a matter of time.
Click to expand...

Uhhh . . . gold is already used as required; it's not the best conductor anyway (silver is). Besides, interplanetary transportation costs are enormous. It would be cheaper to synthesize gold in a nuclear reactor . . . or better yet, just keep on mining the way we do now . . .
 
There will be a way of mixing sound waves with color waves and there will no longer be a need for lighting shows.
An A note or cord while being played will produce red in the air, Key of B will be blue etc., etc. This is not that far off in the future ladies and gentlemen.






:cool:
 
moresound said:
There will be a way of mixing sound waves with color waves and there will no longer be a need for lighting shows.
An A note or cord while being played will produce red in the air, Key of B will be blue etc., etc. This is not that far off in the future ladies and gentlemen.






:cool:
Click to expand...

That sounds like a f**kin cool idea.
 
welcome aboard Dave...stick to the roads and beware the moon! :eek:
 
philbagg said:
That sounds like a f**kin cool idea.
Click to expand...

Believe me phillbagg this tech has been on the drawing board and is only a few years away.
Even back in the 1800s they knew of the relationship of the frequencies but the tech is just now coming available.





:cool:
 
moresound said:
There will be a way of mixing sound waves with color waves and there will no longer be a need for lighting shows.
An A note or cord while being played will produce red in the air, Key of B will be blue etc., etc. This is not that far off in the future ladies and gentlemen.
Click to expand...

That's exactly what I saw once, in the 80s when I dropped a microdot.

Or was it that I saw the future that night...?

Dr. V
 
my guitar sound won't suck :eek:




...or will it... ?



(probably)
 
moresound said:
There will be a way of mixing sound waves with color waves and there will no longer be a need for lighting shows.
An A note or cord while being played will produce red in the air, Key of B will be blue etc., etc. This is not that far off in the future ladies and gentlemen.
Click to expand...

I ain't no genius of physics, but the only way I know of to get air to emit light is to heat it . . . I suppose you could create plasma in a speaker, but why would you want to, given that the power consumption would be greater than the usual approach? And how would that not consist of a light show :confused:

Also, since notes aren't pure tones, and the overtone series becomes non-equal temperament pretty quickly (immediately), how are you going to manage your color scheme?
 
Come on man,didn't you hear all the hype!

After December 21, 2012 it won't matter anymore.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top