Séminaire exceptionnel
Dr. Toshifumi Kunimoto, spécialiste du traitement du signal audio au sein de l’entreprise japonaise YAMAHA, ayant exercé en tant que General Manager de la division R&D au Japon, présentera une rétrospective de différents instruments de musique électroniques, produits audio et technologies associées qu’il a contribué à développer pendant sa carrière (notamment le synthétiseur VL1, piano numérique CP1, ...). Tous ces produits ne furent pas des succès commerciaux pour YAMAHA. Au delà des aspects techniques, il tentera d’amener des éclaircissements sur les raisons du fort succès commercial pour certains de ces produits, et du succès plus mitigé pour d’autres.
About the speaker : Toshifumi Kunimoto was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan in 1957. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees for his work on ARMA digital filter design from the Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan in 1980, 1982, and 2017, respectively. In 1982 Toshifumi Kunimoto joined Yamaha, where he has designed large-scale integration (LSI) systems for numerous musical instruments such as the Electone, Yamaha’s trademark electronic organ line. He has created numerous signal processing technologies used in Yamaha synthesizers and pro-audio equipment. Among his designs are the famous Yamaha VL1 Virtual Acoustic Synthesizer and the CP1 electronic piano. He has also contributed to several Japanese specialized music and audio publications with articles describing the behavior of analog audio equipment such as guitar stompboxes. Since 2008, he has worked at Yamaha’s Center for Research & Development in Hamamatsu, Japan.
