Re: [music-dsp] damn patents (was New patent application on uniformly partitioned convolution) [OT]

2011-01-31 Thread Richard Dobson
; but the modern software patent is a cash cow not only for companies (pity the poor individual inventor indeed!) but also de facto for government exchequers everywhere, and is I suspect here to stay. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ

Re: [music-dsp] damn patents (was New patent application on uniformly partitioned convolution) [OT]

2011-02-07 Thread Richard Dobson
time are probably vanishingly small. No chip, no card, no plugin, no new effect. No composer will be able to make use of it unless they are veeerrry patient and abandon all thoughts of MIDI control. Don't even ~think~ of implementing it in PD. Still, watch this space etc... Richard Dobson

Re: [music-dsp] Multichannel Stream Mixer

2011-08-30 Thread Richard Dobson
are relatively random, so peaks are less likely to reinforce each other. And at the very least, it would mean that if you do decide to add limiting or compression, it can be very much milder, and ~just possibly~ might not be noticed! Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list

Re: [music-dsp] FM Synthesis

2011-09-14 Thread Richard Dobson
a bit of aliasing if pushed? (I haven't got one, so I can't try it). Yes. Didn't take a huge amount of pushing. I thought that was supposed to be part of its charm. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list

Re: [music-dsp] FM Synthesis

2011-09-14 Thread Richard Dobson
emulation complete with patches (poss in the Csound book; not to hand right now). Have we now reached the point where FM sounds are back in fashion? Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp

[music-dsp] ANN: audio programming course

2012-01-31 Thread Richard Dobson
and go beyond to real-time interactive this and that. Expressions of interest are invited! Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http

Re: [music-dsp] stereo-wide pan law?

2012-02-07 Thread Richard Dobson
plus crosstalk cancellation (some techniques such as ambiophonics claim to be able to create the sense of full surround using just the two speakers), or at some other more or less sophisticated psycho-acoustic illusion, which as per usual will likely not work for everyone. Richard Dobson On 07

Re: [music-dsp] stereo-wide pan law?

2012-02-07 Thread Richard Dobson
either side of a round iMac (so hardly a definitive or rigorous test!) I actually got the effect quite clearly. If that was not yours, whose might it have been? Richard Dobson On 07/02/2012 20:59, Ralph Glasgal wrote: Ambiophonics (actually Panambiophonics) requires four speakers to reproduce

Re: [music-dsp] stereo-wide pan law?

2012-02-08 Thread Richard Dobson
. Breaks just about every dsp/ee rule in the book, but nobody cares if it creates a cool sound, preferably one where everyone asks how on earth did they do ~that~? and where can I buy one?. And, inevitably, is it patented?. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-21 Thread Richard Dobson
or Wiimotes, or whatever. The current version is 5.16, released this month: http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/files/csound5/ Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http

Re: [music-dsp] google's non-sine

2012-02-25 Thread Richard Dobson
the other day on a news bulletin the reference to James Dyson as someone who had invented a new hoover. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-26 Thread Richard Dobson
On 26/02/2012 14:11, Brad Garton wrote: On Feb 26, 2012, at 5:13 AM, Richard Dobson wrote: It is rather more flexible than Max/MSP, say, because you can if you want to run a single-sample vector, whereas MSP has always been fixed to a 64-sample block size. I don't think that's actually true

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-26 Thread Richard Dobson
to learn any maths, do we?. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-27 Thread Richard Dobson
but who think and compose algorithmically. What do we call them? For nobody really exists until we can call them something. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-27 Thread Richard Dobson
them -- much. Quite. We don't have to think about them at all, except for the times when we do! Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-27 Thread Richard Dobson
is how I describe myself, because all the activities I engage in are related to music one way and another. It remains to be seen, of course, to what extent my sonifications amount to music - but they have at least been used by musicians to make music with, so that makes it OK. Richard Dobson

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-28 Thread Richard Dobson
On 28/02/2012 13:05, Andy Farnell wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:04:45AM +, Richard Dobson wrote: So, one way and another, Computer music is so laden with definitions and qualifications as to have lost all definition - using it gives the listener no real information. And yet, if I

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-28 Thread Richard Dobson
possible criterion of goodness of a piece for it to qualify as HAA (assuming of course HAA can itself be adequately defined). I am really interested in what other paradigms of the compositional process could also qualify for a HAA piece. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list

Re: [music-dsp] More on the job opening

2012-03-24 Thread Richard Dobson
that to be more fertile ground to plant this in. Possibly also the sursound list; lots of interest there in soundfields, acoustics, modelling etc. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links

Re: [music-dsp] Window presum synthesis

2012-04-23 Thread Richard Dobson
it more myself. The link to the Dahl dissertation is very helpful. And with respect to stupid' algorithms - musicians by and large simply don't mind that much, if the results are (by whatever criteria) either useful or cool. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list

Re: [music-dsp] Window presum synthesis

2012-05-14 Thread Richard Dobson
different thing entirely - 480+ cores, whereas a high-end general-purpose machine may sport 8. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http

[music-dsp] ANN: Update to Multi-Channel Toolkit

2012-08-20 Thread Richard Dobson
has been added. For Windows and OS X (Universal Binary) as usual. Get it from: http://people.bath.ac.uk/masrwd/mctools.html Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http

Re: [music-dsp] Software to make a binaural simulation of the movement of a sound source

2012-10-10 Thread Richard Dobson
and decoding, and also some HRTF opcodes for binaural encoding. Richard Dobson ** http://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http

Re: [music-dsp] Software to make a binaural simulation of the movement of a sound source

2012-10-10 Thread Richard Dobson
On 10/10/2012 20:33, Richard Dobson wrote: .. offline solutions, also some plugins*). *e.g.: http://www.kvraudio.com/product/b_binaural_ambisonic_binaural_decoder_by_digenis -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive

Re: [music-dsp] Ghost tone

2012-12-06 Thread Richard Dobson
easily mask higher frequencies. The phase-shifted version of the pulse wave can be expected to have an effect on resultant tones, due to the more or less random local cancellation effects that may arise. Richard Dobson On 06/12/2012 12:13, Didier Dambrin wrote: not at all (plus I never really

Re: [music-dsp] Ghost tone

2012-12-07 Thread Richard Dobson
wheere the partials are all self-reinforcing. The rms levels are about the same. So it is a multi-dimensional comparison. Richard Dobson On 07/12/2012 04:47, Didier Dambrin wrote: I'm no psychoacoustician, but I do know that the ear doesn't completely disregard phase on the scale of a few

Re: [music-dsp] RE : TR : Production Music Mood Annotation Survey 2013

2013-02-20 Thread Richard Dobson
Sorry - long post! feel free to delete! On 20/02/2013 03:50, mathieu barthet wrote: Dear Richard Dobson, Please see comments below. .. Stravinsky: music is powerless to express anything at all. -- Yes he said it, but: In 1962, he [Stravinsky] clarified what he meant – a little grumpily

Re: [music-dsp] RE : RE : TR : Production Music Mood Annotation Survey 2013

2013-02-21 Thread Richard Dobson
for all those lists of emotions to be reclassified according to the above schema. And so on... Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp

Re: [music-dsp] M4 Music Mood Recommendation Survey

2013-02-21 Thread Richard Dobson
emotions/moods in listeners. A large number of studies offer empirical evidence in support of this assumption. The survey will only make sense to you if you also support this assumption.] Works for me! Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ

Re: [music-dsp] M4 Music Mood Recommendation Survey

2013-02-21 Thread Richard Dobson
be anyway. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp

Re: [music-dsp] RE : TR : Production Music Mood Annotation Survey 2013

2013-02-21 Thread Richard Dobson
On 20/02/2013 16:12, Richard Dobson wrote: .. So were I to do the survey, I fear I might be guilty of some mischief. So in fact, I need not have worried - mischief is built into the system! Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ

Re: [music-dsp] M4 Music Mood Recommendation Survey

2013-02-21 Thread Richard Dobson
] they value music primarily because of the emotions it evokes. If something is taken as axiomatic, which should better be a hypothesis to be tested, confusion is an unsurprising result. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code

Re: [music-dsp] RE : RE : TR : Production Music Mood Annotation Survey 2013

2013-02-22 Thread Richard Dobson
On 22/02/2013 05:33, mathieu barthet wrote: May I... On 20/02/2013 16:12, Richard Dobson wrote: .. So were I to do the survey, I fear I might be guilty of some mischief. So in fact, I need not have worried - mischief is built into the system! Richard Dobson @Richard: If I understand

Re: [music-dsp] Efficiency of clear/copy/offset buffers

2013-03-10 Thread Richard Dobson
the Csound oscillator famously fast. There are reasons enough to have conditional tests inside a per-sample loop, but where they can be avoided, significant speedups can be achieved. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code

Re: [music-dsp] basic trouble with signed and unsigned types

2013-05-02 Thread Richard Dobson
? Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp

Re: [music-dsp] Trapezoidal integrated optimised SVF v2

2013-11-07 Thread Richard Dobson
+1! On 07/11/2013 17:30, Victor Lazzarini wrote: +1 On 7 Nov 2013, at 17:16, Phil Burk philb...@mobileer.com wrote: Dear Theo, I found Andrew's postings to be very interesting and helpful. Respectful disagreement is welcome. Insults are not. Please stop. Thank you, Phil Burk --

Re: [music-dsp] Trapezoidal integrated optimised SVF v2

2013-11-08 Thread Richard Dobson
) they will tend to focus on the feeling, rather than on the information. Its a bit like trying to drive with the brakes on. Richard Dobson On 08/11/2013 21:12, Theo Verelst wrote: Richard Dobson wrote: -1. .. Don't you feel that if I'm simply right, and refuse to subscribe to the sort of crime

Re: [music-dsp] A rephrasing of some of my sampling theory related concerns

2013-11-13 Thread Richard Dobson
of the journey, not the end of it! So, yes, I agree that modesty from a PhD is always good to see! Richard Dobson On 13/11/2013 16:54, Theo Verelst wrote: I must say that where I received my (at the time) top level education, the PhD's had much higher standards concerning human modesty and theoretical

Re: [music-dsp] Implicit integration is an important term, ZDF is not

2013-11-15 Thread Richard Dobson
a possible or actual analogue circuit. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp

Re: [music-dsp] Modular Synthesis Language Moselle... Alpha Release Today.

2013-12-14 Thread Richard Dobson
to something first; they probably have even more subscription fatigue than I do. They would for example need to be able to install it on a school network without requiring each student to subscribe to what is presumably an un-moderated forum not expressly designed for youngsters. Richard

Re: [music-dsp] DSP/Plug-in Developers in the Big Apple

2014-01-03 Thread Richard Dobson
for general audio dsp design, and of course has a huge and ever expanding repertoire of opcodes, etc. Richard Dobson On 03/01/2014 01:40, Douglas Repetto wrote: Well, the music-dsp list lives in New York City! And all of the universities in the city have active computer music programs. Plus

Re: [music-dsp] still empty .wav stereo generated, please help

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Dobson
++) { out[i*2] = buffer[i]; out[i*2+1] = buffer[i]; } HTH, Richard Dobson On 24/01/2014 16:49, Pablo Frank wrote: After initializing psf_out2, initializing psfinfo_out to zero, and correcting the if, as displayed below at (1), the code displayed below in (2) still generates an empty stereo

Re: [music-dsp] still empty .wav stereo generated, please help

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Dobson
First time I have seen Linux listed as a language. Interesting! Richard Dobson On 24/01/2014 17:48, Theo Verelst wrote: Aren't there examples with the software the source is a part of? I hate to be annoying, but in like Linux and C, long standing pro-languages, ... -- dupswapdrop -- the music

Re: [music-dsp] Detuned oscillator thought line

2014-01-25 Thread Richard Dobson
On 25/01/2014 10:33, Richard Dobson wrote: .. Also - that is a whole lot of computing stuff to, um, install, to try out a sound with some detuned sinusoids. How about posting an example in Csound? :-) I decided to write it myself, in the end, so here it is, with I hope sufficient comments

Re: [music-dsp] Detuned oscillator thought line

2014-01-25 Thread Richard Dobson
On 25/01/2014 14:22, Theo Verelst wrote: Richard Dobson wrote: On 25/01/2014 10:33, Richard Dobson wrote: ... I decided to write it myself, in the end, so here it is, with I hope sufficient comments in the code to disambiguate the subtle difference between detuning a square-wave oscillator

Re: [music-dsp] Best way to do sine hard sync?

2014-02-26 Thread Richard Dobson
(with suitably ultra-high sr) waveform from an analog synth doing hard sync? What does the real thing actually look like? Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu

Re: [music-dsp] Mastering correction by FFT-based filtering followed by 1 octave or 1/10 octave equalizer

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Dobson
of measurement with another, but is relatively uninformative in the absence of being able to hear the before and after and make what inevitably will be an aesthetic value judgement. Richard Dobson On 27/02/2014 10:05, Theo Verelst wrote: The big graphs of signal processing are for things like mid

Re: [music-dsp] #music-dsp chatroom invitation

2014-10-11 Thread Richard Dobson
the subject line; but then it wouldn't be the first time that has happened, either! Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http

Re: [music-dsp] entropy

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Dobson
makes the message 1001011001101 and not, say, 00100101100110100? There are two pairs of zeroes inside the message, so it is at least plausible that it could begin and end with pairs of zeroes. What role does ambiguity (and the avoidance thereof) play in these entropy questions? Richard Dobson

Re: [music-dsp] Dither video and articles

2015-02-06 Thread Richard Dobson
all six, give a suitably quiet listening environment and an appropriately generous overall playback level etc. Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu

Re: [music-dsp] R: Glitch/Alias free modulated delay

2015-03-21 Thread Richard Dobson
not exceed the extent of the buffer at either end. A slow modulation rate will then apply a respectable vibrato, with pitch deviation approx equal above and below the source. At least, that is how I have always done it... Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website

Re: [music-dsp] Uses of Fourier Synthesis?

2015-04-05 Thread Richard Dobson
, of course! Richard Dobson -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp

Re: [music-dsp] FFTW Help in C

2015-06-11 Thread Richard Dobson
only need to compute FFTs at those intervals (e.g. triggered by a timer and reconciled with your main audio buffer), not at the higher analysis frame rates associated with FFT overlapping. Richard Dobson On 11/06/2015 16:18, Phil Burk wrote: Hello Connor, If you just wanted to do a quick FFT

Re: [music-dsp] [admin] list etiquette

2015-08-22 Thread Richard Dobson
Ditto! Richard Dobson On 22/08/2015 16:50, Michael Gogins wrote: Thank you, Douglas. Regards, Mike ___ music-dsp mailing list music-dsp@music.columbia.edu https://lists.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp

Re: [music-dsp] [admin] list etiquette

2015-08-22 Thread Richard Dobson
I think this might be a bit too restrictive; there have been many highly informative exchanges here over the years, all well-considered, that have exceeded this limit. The key is surely well-considered - and the absence of egoic chest-beating! Richard Dobson On 22/08/2015 16:21, Douglas

Re: [music-dsp] 20k

2015-08-31 Thread Richard Dobson
ime-domain FIR, all to achieve the lowest possible latency. But that was all a while ago now, has that patent not now expired? There is a perfectly usable fixed-size partitioned convolution opcode in Csound, among other things. Richard Dobson On 31/08/2015 03:15, Tom Duffy wrote: ... Do

Re: [music-dsp] automation of parametric EQ .

2015-12-22 Thread Richard Dobson
forget now, but I think it was turned down for being "over-ambitious". Maybe they were right, and it is just too much to take on unless you are a large company with a big R budget. I would have liked to chance to try though! Richard Dobson On 22/12/2015 00:51, Michael Gogins wrote

Re: [music-dsp] IIR filter efficiency

2017-03-10 Thread Richard Dobson
This might not be possible if one is implementing e.g. a plugin to run in a third-party host - where one does not have full control over the host, nor indeed of fellow plugins. Whereas adding some ~very~ low level TPDF dither to a signal should be close to minimum cost. Richard Dobson On 10

Re: [music-dsp] Sampling theory "best" explanation

2017-09-07 Thread Richard Dobson
It is a most fascinating thread. The more one looks into it, the more one has to marvel that the process works at all. Richard Dobson On 07/09/2017 07:16, Nigel Redmon wrote: Somehow, combining the term "rat's ass" with a clear and concise explanation of your viewpoint makes it

Re: [music-dsp] PCM audio amplitudes represent pressure or displacement?

2017-09-30 Thread Richard Dobson
. Richard Dobson On 30/09/2017 17:03, Renato Fabbri wrote: I am not finding this information clearly. BTW. microphones capture amplitude or displacement or it depends? -- Renato Fabbri GNU/Linux User #479299 labmacambira.sourceforge.net <http://labmacambira.sourceforge.

Re: [music-dsp] sound transcription knowledge

2018-07-10 Thread Richard Dobson
It might also be worth looking at Sonic Visualiser, which is open source: https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ Richard Dobson On 10/07/2018 14:01, Patric Schmitz wrote: Hi Raphaël, you might consider additional spectral descriptors such as MFCC/BFCC, cepstrum, spectral moments like centroid

Re: [music-dsp] FIR blog post & interactive demo

2020-03-10 Thread Richard Dobson
, and others from various Csound and similar conferences. If people are interested, I can can probably find more details. Richard Dobson ___ dupswapdrop: music-dsp mailing list music-dsp@music.columbia.edu https://lists.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [music-dsp] Sliding Phase Vocoder (was FIR blog post & interactive demo)

2020-03-19 Thread Richard Dobson
estimated (back-of-an-envelope-style) demands of the order of 50GFlops. Of course there remain many unanswered questions! Richard Dobson On 19/03/2020 16:18, Ethan Duni wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 1:05 PM Richard Dobson <mailto:rich...@rwdobson.com>> wrote: Our ICMC pape

Re: [music-dsp] Sliding Phase Vocoder (was FIR blog post & interactive demo)

2020-03-19 Thread Richard Dobson
sorry for the repeats - don't know how that happened! ___ dupswapdrop: music-dsp mailing list music-dsp@music.columbia.edu https://lists.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp

Re: [music-dsp] Sliding Phase Vocoder (was FIR blog post & interactive demo)

2020-03-19 Thread Richard Dobson
(but some transformations are pretty cpu-intensive too!). The Bath Uni team said they were using a "mid-range" graphic card (on a Linux workstation). Richard Dobson On 19/03/2020 17:45, Eric Brombaugh wrote: Wow - interesting discussion. I've implemented a real-time SDFT on an FPGA for use in

Re: [music-dsp] FIR blog post & interactive demo

2020-03-10 Thread Richard Dobson
On 10/03/2020 19:45, Ethan Duni wrote: On Mar 10, 2020, at 3:38 AM, Richard Dobson wrote: You can have windows when hop size is 1 sample (as used in the sliding phase vocoder (SPV) proposed by Andy Moorer exactly 20 years ago, and the focus of a research project I was part of around 2007