I have to say that the unique effect of Tang Huan's localization strategy is very powerful. When he tries to take it under the guise of Japanese companies like Epson or Taito, the rejection he encounters is often quite limited.

Let's take Genichi Kawakami, in terms of qualifications, he can also squeeze into the ranks of the golden generation of Japanese entrepreneurs, but in the face of Tang Huan's capital stick, he has to compromise.

Seeing that Tang Huan did not hide his smugness, Genichi Kawakami could only let this victor leap into force, accompanied by a smiling face, and said against his will: "I hope to borrow Mr. Tang's auspicious words, Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. will continue to carry forward, and Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. will get out of the predicament." ”

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

Genichi Kawakami glanced at his son appreciatively, and said that there has finally been an observation occasion for the Changjin Association recently, and he is also very concerned about this topic, but because of his identity, he is embarrassed to take the initiative to ask.

"Of course I'm not going to break my word." Tang Huan smiled faintly, "In this way, I will purchase 500 motorcycles from you first and test the market." But there is one thing, the accessories must keep up. ”

Tang Huancai didn't have the leisure to help Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd., which had a serious inventory backlog, but just happened to pick up the grass and beat the rabbit.

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

At the present stage, the public security situation on the mainland does not allow for optimism. These motorcycles are a gift to the past, and they can be used to strengthen the front-line patrol force. Deter outlaws, and the part that cannot be used can also help those in need.

If Yamaha motorcycles are suitable for the use environment in China. Then some form of introduction and cooperation can be considered in the port city or other cities in Dong Bouhan. Of course, this project still has to fall on Zhou Chong's head.

The causal relationship is so simple, but how did Genichi Kawakami, father and son, know Tang Huan's carelessness, they only think that the richest man in the United States has a good character and a good reputation.

In the face of the strength of the strong, the weak who can't resist can only find psychological comfort. Close your eyes and enjoy.

Genichi Kawakami's father and son had already thought about it, especially after the change in thinking, and noticed some situations that they had ignored earlier.

The Hattori family after ceding control of Epson. Relying on the remaining part of the equity income, he has become a rich man sitting and counting money, which is so relaxed and comfortable that it is indescribable.

Mikhail. Kogan's changes are even more exaggerated, after selling Taidong to Tang Huan. Suddenly. became one of the top leaders in the opposing camp, and led the Auckland Athletics team to Japan several times to play friendly matches with baseball teams under several famous foundations.

After learning more about these precedents, Genichi Kawakami pondered why he was looking for external forces to counter Tang Huan in the first place. Not only did he repeatedly hit a wall, but he was also incomprehensible by the other party. Why let go of such a good opportunity for cooperation?

The reason why Genichi Kawakami, who is already over the age of old, went out of the mountain for the second time under pressure and regained power is mainly to pass on the foundation to his son Hiroshi Kawakami.

Among them, Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is the brainchild of his decades of hard work, and diversified industries such as resorts and sporting goods are also implemented under his name; Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd., which has the longest history but has a relatively simple structure, is not inseparable.

If it is possible to go through this capital cooperation, like the Hattori family and Mikhail. Kogan made enough money like that, but it was a bad thing turned a good thing. Even, Hiroshi Kawakami's ascension can be smoother.

Genichi Kawakami, who understood these joints, was hospitable and tried his best to bring the relationship closer to each other in the process of assisting Tang Huan in reorganizing Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd.

With the deliberate forgetting of the previous unhappiness, the relationship between Genichi Kawakami 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, Nippon Gakki is different from Epson and Taito.

Epson was relatively independent of the Hattori family's Seiko, and Taito was replaced by Mikhail. Kogan was completely out of the way, and Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. and Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. have always owned the Yamaha brand.

There are too many entanglements of interests in this, and we must take care of them.

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

After seeing Tang Huan's awesomeness, Hiroshi Kawakami didn't need his father Kawakami Gen to teach him a lesson, and he knew that he had to please this former opponent, so that he almost became a follower these days.

On this day, Hiroshi Kawakami continued to follow Tang Huan, admiring how the other party had wiped Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. clean.

When he saw a large number of Yamaha's electronic musical instruments, which were connected and controlled by a Fangyuan computer through the MIDI interface, and then obtained the results of mixing, special effects, etc., Hiroshi Kawakami suddenly had some enlightenment and blurted out: "If Nippon Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., Ltd. still sticks to the traditional musical instrument manufacturing business and does not penetrate into the field of electronic musical instruments and MIDI, it must not become the prey of Mr. Tang, right?" ”

"Of course. I can't always build my computer from scratch with the mechanics of MIDI to control electronic instruments. After Tang Huan finished answering, he casually hit the enter key, and a Fangyuan computer began to play MIDI music.

At this stage, the application field of digital audio is mainly reflected in digital music, after all, only the most extensive audience of ordinary consumer groups can bring enough profit driving force.

There are two types of digital music that people can enjoy on a daily basis: chiptunes on personal computers and video game consoles, and CDs.

After video games became popular in the 1970s, game sound effects and music were able to provide an aural experience. It quickly became an important part of the design.

However, video game consoles have developed until now, and they are not mature enough to play back high-resolution PCM recordings, let alone use commercially licensed high-quality recordings.

So. The only way to implement game music is real-time synthesis, which is to implant the basic sound synthesis engine into the hardware.

As a result, chip music has become a very popular form of electronic music, and many musicians have made great achievements in this field.

Chip music consists of several basic waveforms, such as square, sawtooth, or triangular waves. and basic percussion instruments, with a certain degree of artistic expression, resulting in many familiar works. For example, the game music in Super Mario. It is very popular.

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

Several leading manufacturers in the industry, including EA. Its video game consoles use technologically unique sound processing chips. 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 will produce sounds with very different effects, which can be described as a design level and a high judgment.

Taidong's 1978 blockbuster game "Space Invaders", "Space Invaders", used Texas Instruments' sound processing chips SN76477 its arcade hardware system.

The digital audio technology team headed by Shen Wangfu has developed this kind of sound processing chip 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 to buy.

Even so. The congenital malnutrition of chip music still can't fully compensate for it back.

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 number of polyphonies in chip music is very limited, which limits the creative space of musicians.

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

Compared with the latest laser record, the sound quality is greatly inferior, the technical specifications of the CD are 16-bit, two-channel, and the sampling frequency reaches 44.1KHz.

Originally, the popularity of laser records in time and space proved that its technical indicators were excellent and reasonable.

Fangyuan personal computer can be on the CD-ROM/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, the implementation of laser records and chip music is completely different.

Chip music is synthesized in real time through the sound processing chip, which is equivalent to live performance; A laser record, on the other hand, is a digital signal that has been recorded in the playback track.

The audio track on a laser disc is different from the usual files processed by the computer, and if you convert the music of a 1-hour CD to a computer file without loss or compression, the size will exceed 600MB.

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

Obviously, it's okay to work with a track or segment of a CD on a computer, but it's not possible to integrate it into a video game as a file for players to play back while playing.

The latest MIDI has a flavor of coming into being, which is not only technically more flexible and powerful than chip music, but also avoids the storage capacity problem caused by the playback of laser records. Not generally pleasing.

In the case of electronic musical instruments, as well as between electronic musical instruments and personal computers, MIDI is a communication protocol and work instruction that allows these devices to work together across different gaps in manufacturers, hardware architectures, and so on, to reach a higher level of art.

Internally only on the inside of a computer or video game console, MIDI exists in the form of a file that contains a collection of instructions to direct how the sound card works and the corresponding CD track. Huge files that purely record sound are measured in megabytes, often only a few or a dozen kilobytes in size, which is 1,000 times different in terms of measurement units.

computer on the implementation of sound functions. There are their own differences, for example, IBM-PC integrates an electronic speaker, although Fangyuan computer also supports this kind of small speaker, but it emphasizes the use of special sound processing chips, and even sound cards, with independent external speakers, to achieve sound functions.

After several years of accumulation of technology from applications such as video game consoles. The digital audio technology team specially set up by Tang Huan has launched hardware that supports MIDI technology, and it is worthy of the name sound card.

A MIDI sound card is like a sound processing chip that supports chip music. Live performance, real-time synthesis, but the synthesizer is more advanced, divided into two ways: WavetableSynthesis - wavetable synthesis and FrequencyModulationSynthesis - frequency modulation synthesis is FM synthesis.

Technical principles of wavetable synthesis and FM synthesis. are already ripe. But the progress of product realization is very different.

When playback, according to the information recorded in the MIDI file, a command is sent to the sound card, and the corresponding sound information is found from the wavetable one by one, and the microprocessor on the sound card or the CPU of the PC system is synthesized and processed.

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

FM synthesis is one of the most effective electronic music synthesis techniques. It was first developed by John Chowning of Stanford University in the United States. Droni proposed, and in 1966 he became the first person to use FM synthesis technology to produce music.

Stanford University filed a patent for this, and Yamaha received the license as early as 1975 to develop the Digitalsynthesizer.

However, Yamaha was not able to get ahead commercially, and the three Australian inventors introduced the FairlightCMI system in Sydney in 1979, followed by the Synclavier II system by NewEngland Digital Corp., a New England Digital Corp. in the United States.

Both of these products are very expensive, selling for more than $20,000. So Yamaha saw this hole and launched its own digital synthesis, the YamahaGS-1, which sold for $16,000.

California-based E-muSystems quickly broke the price record, launching a comparable product for just $7,900 this year.

In 1983, Yamaha launched a follow-up product, the YamahaDX7, priced at $2,000, which not only suppressed its peers, but also caused the market position of AnalogSynthesizers, an analog synthesizer, to decline.

Yamaha's use of this set of hurtful tricks has indeed earned it a dominant position in the market for more than ten years. And Stanford University also earned $20 million 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 market led to the advent of the first affordable sound card, AdLibCard, in 1987, followed by the innovative Sound Blaster card.

Compared with wavetable synthesis, one of the major characteristics of FM synthesis is that the structure is simple, the cost is low, and the sound source generation circuit is controlled by software, which can be multi-channel synthesized to simulate the sound of various musical instruments.

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

After Tang Huan took over Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd., a leader in the musical instrument manufacturing industry, he mastered the basic complete set of links in the field of digital audio, which can be said to be MIDI and sound cards in his hands, which is enough to control the development of sound cards in the next ten years.

With this integration, it is only natural to attract more musicians to adopt digital audio technology, which ultimately translates into demand for IT products.

Seeing that Hiroshi Kawakami still wanted to continue exploring, Tang Huan smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Actually, you only need to understand one thing, Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. is on my chessboard, and the remaining shares in your hands will generate more income." (To be continued......)