Rebirth of the Tech Madman

It has to be said that the unique effects of Tang Huan's localization strategy are very powerful. When he used the banner of Japanese companies such as Epson or Taito to plunder, the rejection he encountered was often quite limited.

Take Genichi Kawakami as an example. In terms of qualifications, he can also be squeezed into the ranks of the golden generation of Japanese entrepreneurs, but in the face of Tang Huan's cold-blooded capital stick, he has to compromise.

Seeing that Tang Huan made no secret of his complacency, Genichi Kawakami could only let the winner show off his power, and with a smile on his face, he said against his will: I hope I can borrow Mr. Tang's good words, Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., Ltd. continues Carry forward, and Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. will get out of trouble.

Hiroshi Kawakami bravely interrupted and asked, I remember that Mr. Tang once said that he could help Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. to find a market opportunity in China. I don't know if this promise is still valid.

Genichi Kawakami glanced at his son appreciatively, and said to himself that there was finally a meeting for the development of the society recently. He was also very concerned about this topic, but due to his status, he was embarrassed to ask about it.

Of course I won't break my promise. Tang Huan smiled lightly, Well, I will purchase 500 motorcycles from you first to test the market. But there is one thing, the accessories must keep up.

Tang Huancai didn't have the time to help Yamaha Engine Co., Ltd., which had a serious backlog of inventory, but just picked up grass and beat rabbits at the right time.

Zhou Zhong has already taken up a post in the local area, so Tang Huan naturally wants to assist him in making political achievements.

At this stage, the security situation in the mainland is not optimistic. This batch of motorcycles can be regarded as a gift from the past. Zhou Mi can be used to strengthen the front-line patrol force and deter criminals. It can also help where there is a need.

If Yamaha motorcycles are suitable for the use environment in China, then some form of introduction and cooperation in Hong Kong City or other cities in Eastern Van Province can be considered. Of course, this project still falls on Zhou Zhong's head.

The causal relationship is as simple as that, but Genichi Kawakami and his son didn't know that Tang Huan was careless, they only thought that the richest man in the United States had a good character. Good reputation.

In the face of the power of the strong, the weak who cannot resist can only find psychological comfort and enjoy it with their eyes closed.

Kawakami Genichi and his son have already thought about it, especially after the change of thinking, they noticed some situations that were ignored earlier.

After the Hattori family surrendered control of Epson. Relying on the remaining part of the equity income, he seems to have become a rich man sitting and counting his money, and he is so relaxed and comfortable that it is indescribable.

Mikhail Kogan's changes are even more exaggerated,

After selling Taidong to Tang Huan, he changed drastically. Became one of the top executives in the opponent's camp, and led the Oakland Athletics to Japan several times to play friendly matches with several baseball teams under the famous consortium.

After learning about these precedents in detail, Kawakami Genichi pondered over why he was looking for external forces in the first place to counter Tang Huan. Not only did they run into walls repeatedly, but they were also misunderstood by the other party. Why did they let go of such a good opportunity for cooperation?

Kawakami Genichi, who is over seventy years old. The reason why he came out of the mountain for the second time under pressure, regained power, and pursued the essence was mainly to pass on the foundation to his son Kawakami Hiroshi.

Among them, Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is the brainchild of his decades. Diversified industries such as resorts and sporting goods are also implemented under its name; Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has the longest history but a relatively simple structure. Not inseparable.

If this capital cooperation can be used, enough benefits can be obtained like the Hattori family and Mikhail Kogan. It's a bad thing turned into a good thing. Even, Hiroshi Kawakami's rise to the top position can be smoother.

Genichi Kawakami who wanted to understand these joints, in the next process of assisting Tang Huan to rectify the Japanese Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., Ltd., treated him with hospitality and tried his best to narrow the relationship between the two parties.

After deliberately forgetting the previous unhappiness, the relationship between Kawakami Genichi and Tang Huan can finally be described as harmonious.

In this way, when it comes to bargaining, there is no need to tear your face.

After all, Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is different from Epson and Taito.

Epson is relatively independent from Seiko of the Hattori family, Taito was completely sold off by the founder Mikhail Kogan, and Nippon Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has always owned the Yamaha brand with Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.

There are too many entanglements of interests in it, and we must care about it.

Kawakami Genichi, who is already old, can't spend all day around this young man like Tang Huan, his status and energy don't allow it, so he pushed his son Kawakami Hao to the front line, which can be regarded as helping him establish prestige .

After seeing how powerful Tang Huan was, Kawakami Hao knew he wanted to please his former opponent without his father Gen Kawakami twitching his mouth, so much so that he almost became a follower these days.

On this day, Hiroshi Kawakami continued to follow Tang Huan, appreciating how the other party wiped out Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

When he saw a large number of Yamaha electronic musical instruments connected in series and controlled by a Fangyuan computer through the interface, and then obtained the results of mixing, special effects, etc., Hiroshi Kawakami suddenly realized something, and blurted out: How about Japanese musical instruments? If Manufacturing Co., Ltd. still sticks to the musical instrument manufacturing business in the traditional sense, and has not penetrated into the field of electronic musical instruments and electronic instruments, surely it will not become the prey of Mr. Tang?

Of course. My computer controls the mechanism of electronic musical instruments. I can't build everything from scratch. After Tang Huan answered, he hit the Enter key casually, and a Fangyuan computer started playing music.

At this stage, the application field of digital audio is mainly reflected in digital music. After all, only the general consumer group with the widest audience can bring sufficient profit driving force.

There are roughly two types of digital music that people usually enjoy: chip music on personal computers and video game consoles—s and laser discs—cd.

After video games became popular in the 1970s, game sound effects and music that can provide an auditory experience quickly became a very important part of the design.

But with the development of electronic game consoles up to the present, they do not have the mature conditions to play back high-resolution recordings. Not to mention the use of commercially licensed high-quality recordings.

Therefore, the realization of game music can only choose real-time synthesis, that is, to implant the basic sound synthesis engine into the hardware.

Chip music was born from this and has become a very popular form of electronic music. Many musicians have made great achievements in this field.

Chip music includes several basic waveforms, such as square wave, sawtooth wave or triangle wave, as well as basic percussion instruments, which have a certain ability of artistic expression, so many familiar works have emerged. For example, the game music in Super Mario. It's very popular.

What's more, crackers of many game programs and application software will add their own transition music in the code to show off their superb technology.

Several industry-leading manufacturers, including ea, have used unique sound processing chips in their video game consoles. Even some PCs followed suit.

Of course, the shortcomings of chip music are also very obvious. Sound processing chips from different manufacturers will produce sounds with different effects.

In 1978, the big-selling game invaders - Space Invaders launched by Taidong, its arcade hardware system used Texas Instruments' sound processing chip sn76477.

The sound processing chips developed by the digital audio technology team headed by Shen Wangfu are used in various series of Xiaobawang electronic game consoles and Fangyuan standard personal computers. The performance can be described as outstanding, which has attracted many third-party manufacturers to come to buy it.

Even so, chip music is inherently malnourished. Still can't quite make it back.

For example, in chip music, drum sounds are difficult to obtain and can only be simulated by short-duration signals, pulses, or explosive noises.

In addition, the polyphony of chip music is very limited, which limits the space for musicians to compose.

Chip music belongs to music. That is, each electronic signal that means sound is represented by a combination of 8 binary numbers.

Compare that to the latest compact disc. First of all, in terms of sound quality, it is greatly inferior. The technical specification of CD is 16 bits. Two-channel, the sampling frequency reached 44.1khz.

In the original time and space, the popularity of CDs proved that its technical indicators were excellent and reasonable.

Fangyuan personal computer can use the CD-R drive, through the combination of hardware and software, so that computer users can experience the high-quality digital music form of CD.

In addition to the differences in technical specifications, CD and Chipmusic are implemented completely differently.

Chip music uses a sound processing chip to synthesize music in real time, which is equivalent to live performance; while laser discs are digital signals that have been recorded in playback tracks.

The audio track on a laser disc is different from the various files normally processed by a computer. If an hour-long CD music is converted into a file in the computer without loss and compression, the size will exceed 600mb.

At this stage, only 8-inch and above hard disk systems in the enterprise storage market can provide such a capacity. The hard disk capacity of Fangyuan personal computer is only 10mb or 20mb, and the capacity of Fangyuan personal workstation is slightly more, but it will not exceed 100mb .

Obviously, it is okay to process a certain audio track or clip in a CD on a computer, but it is impossible to integrate it into a video game in the form of a file for playback when the player is playing the game.

The latest one, which seems to have emerged as the times require, is not only technically more flexible and powerful than chip music, but also avoids the storage capacity problem caused by the playback of laser discs. Not generally pleasing.

Between various electronic musical instruments, as well as between electronic musical instruments and personal computers, it is a kind of communication protocol and work instructions, which allow these devices to work together across different gaps such as manufacturers and hardware architectures, and achieve a higher artistic level.

As far as the inside of the computer or electronic game console is concerned, the form of existence is closer to a file containing a set of instructions to instruct the sound card how to work, which is different from the corresponding CD audio track, which is a huge file that purely records sound. It is often only a few or a dozen kb in size. It's a factor of 1000 in units of measurement.

Computers have their own differences in the realization of sound functions. For example, IBM-integrated an electronic speaker. Although Fangyuan Computer also supports this small speaker, it emphasizes the use of a special sound processing chip. Even the sound card, in conjunction with an independent external speaker, realizes the sound function.

After several years of technology accumulation from electronic game consoles and other applications, the digital audio technology team specially formed by Tang Huan has launched hardware that supports the technology, and it is worthy of the name of sound card.

A sound card is like a sound processing chip that supports chip music. Singing performance, real-time synthesis, but the synthesizer is more advanced, there are two ways: - wave table synthesis and - frequency modulation synthesis, that is, fm synthesis.

The technical principles of wavetable synthesis and fm synthesis are mature. But the pace of product realization is very different.

Wavetable synthesis is to sample the sound of musical instruments to form a wavetable file. When playing back, according to the information recorded in the file, an instruction is sent to the sound card to find out the corresponding sound information one by one from the wavetable. Or the system's cpu for synthesis and processing.

This wave table file is casually a few megabytes in size. This requirement alone limits the development of wavetable synthesis on computers.

FM synthesis is the most effective electronic music synthesis technology, which was first proposed by John Zhuoning of Stanford University in the United States. And in 1966 he became the first person to use fm synthesis technology to make music.

Stanford University applied for a patent for this, and Yamaha obtained the authorization as early as 1975 and began to develop a digital synthesizer.

But Yamaha was not able to take the lead in business because of this. The three inventors in Australia launched the i system in Sydney in 1979, and the rp.-New England Digital Company in the United States subsequently launched the system.

Both of these products are very expensive, selling for upwards of $20,000. So Yamaha took aim at this loophole. Launched its own digital synthesizer, the yamahags-1, priced at $16,000.

But e-s, located in California, USA, quickly set a record for this price discount, and launched a similar product priced at only $7,900 this year.

In the original time and space. The market for digital synthesizers was fiercely competitive, and Yamaha was quick to fight back. In 1983, the follow-up product yamahadx7 was launched, priced at $2,000. While suppressing its peers, it also caused the synthesizer's market position to decline.

The set of hurtful tricks used by Yamaha has indeed won him a dominant position in the market for more than ten years. And Stanford University also earned 20 million US dollars before the FM synthesis patent expired, becoming the second gold-absorbing patent, which is many times more successful than the mouse.

The boom in the fm digital synthesizer market prompted the first affordable sound card to come out in 1987, followed by the innovative Sound Blaster card, which made a big splash.

Compared with wavetable synthesis, fm synthesis has a major feature of simple structure and low cost. The sound source generation circuit is controlled by software, and it can be multi-channel synthesized to simulate the sound of various instruments.

Otherwise, the first affordable sound card would not have adopted this technology.

After Tang Huan took over Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a leader in the musical instrument manufacturing industry, he has mastered a complete set of links in the digital audio field.

With this integration advantage, it will be a matter of course to attract more musicians to adopt digital audio technology, and finally convert it into demand for it products.

Seeing Hiroshi Kawakami still wanting to continue to explore, Tang Huan smiled and patted him on the shoulder, Actually, you only need to understand a little bit. Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is on my chessboard and will let the remaining shares in your hands Generate more revenue.” (To be continued)

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