October Meeting Notice

October 2003 Meeting Notice

 Subject:

mLan: Audio and MIDI over Firewire

Election for 2002-2003 officers will take place before the start of this meeting. 

IEEE-1394, also known as FireWire, is an advanced serial bus offering high-speed asynchronous and isochronous data transfer. As such it is ideally suited for real-time multimedia applications, and has been widely adopted, especially for consumer video applications. Yamaha has helped establish a protocol known as mLan for carrying audio samples and MIDI data over FireWire. This presentation will cover the potential of FireWire for the audio and music industries, the basic components of FireWire, the technical fundamentals of mLan, and hardware implementations.

As a professional musician, Mike Overlin played tenor sax with the Air Force Band in Southern California for six years.  As the leader of an electronic music group in Disneyland he played a six-year engagement on electronic wind instruments.  He owned a recording studio in southern California for eight years.  As a recording engineer, he earned a pair of Gold records and taught Basic acoustics and Audio for Video Post at TreBas institute in Hollywood, California. His career with Yamaha began in 1994 doing tech support for computer based digital recording products and as a product specialist for Yamaha pro audio products. He is currently the manager of Yamaha's mLAN licensing program in the US.

Originally trained as a performing musician, John Strawn is now an independent consultant specializing in DSP for audio and music (S-Systems).  He graduated with the Ph.D. from CCRMA in 1985. A Fellow of the AES, he chairs the AES standards committee SC-06-02 on audio and music over 1394, and will be papers co-chair for the October 2002 Los Angeles convention. Having led an R&D group for Yamaha for several years, he continues to consult for Yamaha, especially relating to 1394.
 

Directions

http://www.dolby.com/company/directions_sf.html

From Peninsula/S.F. Airport/Silicon Valley (Hwy. 101 North) Take Vermont Street Exit. Make immediate left onto Vermont Street. Go 5 blocks and turn left onto Alameda Street. Three blocks up is Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

From Bay Bridge (Hwy. 80 West) Take 9th Street/Civic Center exit. Go to the south onto Harrison Street. Follow Harrison to 10th Street. Turn left onto 10th Street and proceed under freeway overpass onto Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

From Golden Gate Bridge (Hwy. 101 South) Cross Golden Gate Bridge, take the Lombard Street (Hwy. 101) Exit. Follow Hwy. 101 signs up Lombard to Van Ness Avenue. Turn right. Proceed on Van Ness to Fell Street and turn left. Proceed on Fell until it crosses Market Street and becomes 10th Street. Continue on 10th under freeway overpass and bear right onto Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

Address:
Dolby Laboratories
100 Potrero Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94103-4813
415-558-0200