Rebirth of the Tech Madman

I have to say that Tang Huan's localization strategy has unique effects that are very powerful. When he used the banner of Japanese companies such as Epson or Taidong to take over and grabbed it, the resistance he encountered was often quite limited.

Take Genichi Kawakami as an example. In terms of qualifications, he can also squeeze into the ranks of the golden generation of Japanese entrepreneurs. However, in the face of Tang Huan's capital stick that Lengzi wielded, he had to compromise.

Seeing that Tang Huan made no secret of his triumph, Kawakami Genichi could only let the victor leap forward, accompany his smiling face, and said against his will: "I hope I can borrow Mr. Tang’s auspicious words. Nippon Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. will continue. Carry forward, Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. got out of trouble."

Hiroshi Kawakami intervened and asked with the courage, "I remember Mr. Tang once said that he can help Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. find a market opportunity in China. I don't know if this promise is still valid."

Genichi Kawakami glanced at his son appreciatively, and Xin said that there has been a chance to observe the growth meeting recently. He is also very concerned about the topic of Gein, but because of his identity, he is embarrassed to ask.

"Of course I won't break my promise." Tang Huan smiled faintly, "In this way, I will buy 500 motorcycles from you first and test the market. But there is one thing, the accessories must keep up."

Tang Huancai didn't bother to help Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd., which had a serious inventory backlog, but just raked in the grass at the meeting.

Zhou Zhong has already taken a post at the local level, and Tang Huan naturally wants to assist him in making political achievements.

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

If Yamaha motorcycles are suitable for the use environment in China, then some form of introduction and cooperation can be considered in Hong Kong City or other cities in Dongwen Province. Of course, this project will fall on Zhou Zhonghe.

The causality is so simple, but Kawakami Yuanyi and his son don’t know Tang Huan’s carelessness, thinking that the richest man in the United States has a good character. Good reputation.

Faced with the strength of the strong, the weak can only find psychological comfort and close their eyes to enjoy.

Kawakami Genichi and his son had already wanted to open up, especially after the change of thinking, they noticed some situations that had been ignored earlier.

After the Hattori family gave up control of Epson. Relying on the remaining share of the equity income, he has become a rich man sitting and counting money, and he is beyond description.

Mikhail Kogan's changes are even more exaggerated. After selling Taidong to Tang Huan, he changed. He became one of the top leaders in the opposing camp, and led the Oakland Athletics team to Japan several times to play friendly matches with several well-known baseball teams under the consortium. It can be described as a lot of glory and a lot of face.

After understanding these precedents in detail, Kawakami Genichi wondered why he started looking for external forces to counter Tang Huan. Not only have they repeatedly run into walls, but they have also been incomprehensible by the other party. Why do you want to let go of such a good opportunity for cooperation?

Kawakami Genichi, who is over the past few years. The reason why he went out of the mountain for the second time under pressure, regained power, and pursued substance, was mainly to pass on his inheritance to his son Hiroshi Kawakami.

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 Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has the longest history but a relatively simple structure. Not inevitable.

If this capital cooperation can be used, sufficient benefits can be obtained like the Hattori family and Mikhail Kogan. It's also a bad thing that has turned into a good thing. Even Hiroshi Kawakami's upper position can be smoother.

Kawakami Genichi, who wanted to understand these joints, served Tang Hwan in the process of reorganizing the Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., Ltd., hospitality, and tried his best to close the relationship between the two parties.

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

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

After all, Japan Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is different from Epson and Taidong.

Epson is relatively independent from the Seiko of the Hattori family, Taito was completely abandoned by the founder of Mikhail Kogan, and Japan Musical Instruments Co., Ltd. has always co-owned the Yamaha brand with Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.

There are too many interests entangled in this, and it must be preoccupied.

Genichi Kawakami, who is very old, can't circle around Tang Huan this young man all day, his identity and energy are not allowed, so he put his son Kawakami Hiroshi to the front line, which can be regarded as helping him establish prestige. .

After seeing Tang Huan's greatness, Kawakami Hao didn't need to draw a lesson from his father Kawakami Yuan, and knew that he had to please this former opponent, so that he almost became a follower during this period.

On this day, Hiroshi Kawakami continued to follow Tang Huan, admiring how the other party wiped out the Japanese Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

When seeing a large number of Yamaha electronic musical instruments connected in series and controlled by a Fangyuan computer through the interface, and then getting the results of mixing, special effects, etc., Kawakami suddenly felt a little understanding and blurted out and asked: "If Japanese musical instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. still sticks to the traditional musical instrument manufacturing business, and if it has not penetrated the electronic musical instruments and the field of its tentacles, it must not become Mr. Tang’s prey, right?

"Of course. My computer uses this mechanism to control electronic musical instruments. It can't be built from scratch." After Tang Huan answered, he hit the Enter key 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 can enjoy: personal computers, chip music on electronic game console platforms-s and compact 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.

However, the development of electronic game consoles has not been mature enough to play back high-resolution recordings. There is no way to talk about the use of commercially licensed high-quality recordings.

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

Chip music was born, and it 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 waves, sawtooth waves, or triangle waves, as well as basic percussion instruments, which have certain artistic performance capabilities, and many familiar works have emerged. For example, the game music in "Super Mario". It is very popular.

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

Several industry-leading manufacturers, including ea, use unique sound processing chips in their electronic game consoles. Even some personal computers have followed suit.

Of course, the shortcomings of chip music are also very obvious. The sound processing chips of different manufacturers can produce sounds with different effects. It can be described as the design standard, and the judgment is high.

In 1978, Taidong's popular game "invaders"-"Space Invaders", its arcade hardware system uses Texas Instruments' sound processing chip sn76477.

The digital audio technology team headed by Shen Wangfu has developed such sound processing chips on various series of Xiaobawang electronic game consoles and Fangyuan standard personal computers. The performance can be described as standing out from the crowd, attracting many third-party manufacturers to come for purchases.

Even so, chip music is inherently malnourished. Still can't fully make up for it.

For example, in chip music, drum sounds are more difficult to obtain and can only be simulated by short-term signals, pulses or explosion noise.

In addition, the polyphony of chip music is very limited, limiting the musician's composing space.

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

This is compared with the latest CD. First of all, it has fallen a lot in terms of sound quality. The technical specification of cd is 16 bits. Two-channel, the sampling frequency has reached 44.1khz.

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

Fangyuan personal computer can use the combination of hardware and software on the cd-r drive, allowing computer users to experience the high-quality digital music form of cd.

In addition to the difference in technical specifications, the implementation of CD and chip music is also completely different.

Chip music is synthesized in real time through a sound processing chip, which is equivalent to a live performance; while a compact disc is a digital signal that has been recorded in the playback sound track.

The audio track on the CD is different from the various files normally processed by the computer. If the one-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 computers is only 10mb or 20mb, and Fangyuan personal workstations are slightly more, but they will not exceed 100mb. .

Obviously, it's okay to process a certain audio track or clip in a CD on a computer, but if you want to integrate it into a video game in the form of a file for the player to play back when playing the game, that can't be done.

The newest ones have a taste that came into being. They are technically more flexible and powerful than chip music, and they avoid the storage capacity problems caused by the playback of CD-ROMs. Not generally pleasing.

Between each electronic musical instrument, as well as between the electronic musical instrument and the personal computer, it can be regarded as a kind of communication protocol and work instruction, which can make these devices work together across the gaps between manufacturers, hardware architectures, etc., to achieve a higher artistic level.

As far as the computer or electronic game machine is concerned, the existing form is closer to a file containing a set of instructions to command how the sound card works, which is different from the mb measurement of 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 is 1000 times worse in the unit of measurement.

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

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

The 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:-wavetable synthesis and-frequency modulation synthesis, that is, fm synthesis.

The technical principles of wavetable synthesis and fm synthesis have matured. But the progress of product realization is very different.

Wavetable synthesis is to sample the sound of the musical instrument to form a wavetable file. When playing back, according to the information recorded in the file, give instructions to the sound card, and find out the corresponding sound information from the wavetable one by one, through the microprocessor on the sound card Or the system's cpu for synthesis and processing.

This wavetable file is just a few megabytes in capacity. This requirement alone limits the development of wavetable synthesis on computers.

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

Stanford University applied for a patent for this, and Yamaha got 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 of Australia launched the i system in Sydney in 1979, and the rp. of the United States, the New England Digital Corporation, subsequently launched the system.

Both of these products are very expensive, priced at more than $20,000. So Yamaha took advantage of the gap. Launched its own digital synthesizer-yamahags-1, priced at $16,000.

However, e-s, located in California, USA, quickly broke the record of this price concession, and launched a similar product priced at only US$7,900 this year.

In the original time and space. The market competition for digital synthesizers was fierce, and Yamaha quickly responded. In 1983, the follow-up product, yamahadx7, was launched at a price of $2,000. In addition to suppressing peers, the market position of synthesizers began to decline.

This set of tactics used by Yamaha has really won him more than ten years of market advantage. And Stanford University also earned 20 million US dollars before the expiration of the fm synthesis patent, becoming the second gold-absorbing patent, which is many times more successful than the mouse.

The boom in the fm digital synthesizer ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ prompted the first affordable sound card, which came out in 1987, and was followed by the innovative sound blaster card.

Compared with wavetable synthesis, a major feature of fm synthesis is its simple structure and lower cost. The sound source generating circuit is controlled by software to produce sounds, which can be synthesized in multiple channels to simulate the sounds of various musical instruments.

Otherwise, the first affordable sound card will not use this technology.

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

With this integration advantage, attracting more musicians to adopt digital audio technology, and ultimately transform it into the demand for it products, it will be a matter of course.

Seeing Kawakami Hiroshi still wanting to continue to explore, Tang Huan smiled and patted his shoulder, "Actually, you only need to understand a little bit. Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., Ltd. will let you have the remaining shares on my board. Generate more revenue." (to be continued)

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