virtual orchestra machine
n.— «In picketing and press releases, it refers to products like Notion and Sinfonia as “virtual orchestra machines”: a kind of alien in the pit.» —“Theater’s Alive With the Sound of Laptops” by Jesse Green New York Times Mar. 25, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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