Starting in the late eighties, the Bianchi and Smith team was among the earliest implementors of live performance, tempo flexible virtual orchestra systems in major productions. Systems using this design have been deployed in hundreds of thousands of performances and on all continents (except for Antartica). In fact, we were the ones who invented this term of use.
ES042 Do Synthesizers belong in the Pit w/ Professor David Smith
A discussion about the genesis and philosophy of the virtual orchestra.