Re: [music-dsp] resonance

2011-01-05 Thread Andy Farnell
assume Kawai ran with that technology for a while and improved it somewhat. andy -- Andy Farnell -- 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.c

Re: [music-dsp] Microtonal Tuning Options

2011-01-14 Thread Andy Farnell
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 > > > > > > -- > Michael Gogin

Re: [music-dsp] New patent application on uniformly partitioned convolution

2011-01-28 Thread Andy Farnell
77 467 386 > > fax +49 (0) 3677 467 4386 > > -- > > 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://mu

Re: [music-dsp] New patent application on uniformly partitioned convolution

2011-01-28 Thread Andy Farnell
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 -- Andy Farnell -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and

Re: [music-dsp] New patent application on uniformly partitioned convolution

2011-01-29 Thread Andy Farnell
s. I think that task is overwhelming now. If you look at the list on the right column of this page I think you will realise we have no choice but to move for massive reform or even abolition to remove whole swathes of the problem. http://petition.eurolinux.org/ -- Andy Farnell On

Re: [music-dsp] New patent application on uniformly partitioned convolution

2011-01-29 Thread Andy Farnell
> > http://petition.eurolinux.org/ > ^ ^ ^ > Internet and mobile payment systems patents! > Doesn't that harm every online business? > I'm going to Patent paper money printing... > : ) And you'll get it. If you paid the right people enough. People who k

Re: [music-dsp] New patent application on uniformly partitioned convolution

2011-01-29 Thread Andy Farnell
ndy On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:43:26 +1100 "Ross Bencina" wrote: > Hi Andy > > Andy Farnell wrote: > > I don't want to open up a lengthy OT debate here. But > > will reply privately to address some of your points in detail. > > Fair enough. I guess the ma

Re: [music-dsp] New patent application on uniformly partitioned convolution

2011-01-29 Thread Andy Farnell
sense, but > others might consider this legally-aided fairness that would otherwise > probably not play out fairly in the market place. -- Andy Farnell -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp

Re: [music-dsp] New patent application on uniformly partitioned convolution

2011-01-31 Thread Andy Farnell
is brother enjoying one, now all of sudden he wants one too. Deferential, approval seeking, risk averse behaviour = colloquially "bottom feeding". On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:54:28 -0800 Nigel Redmon wrote: > Good point, Andy. And I've heard historical examples of how -- Andy Fa

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

2011-01-31 Thread Andy Farnell
meanings, and different meanings require different interpretations. AXIOM: Ideas should not be patentable. Period. Do I need to explain this? On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:51:23 +1100 "Ross Bencina" wrote: > Hi Andy > > I wish I were worthy of quoting Blaise Pascal here, but ins

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

2011-01-31 Thread Andy Farnell
r copyright which would be sufficient for its commercial protection. cheers, Andy On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 02:19:50 +1100 "Ross Bencina" wrote: > Hi Andy > > Andy Farnell wrote: > > AXIOM: Ideas should not be patentable. Period. > > > > Do I need to explain thi

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

2011-01-31 Thread Andy Farnell
All those inventors obtained patents, and here the system drove forward innovation. Nobody tried to patent "the steam engine principle" as they would today and hold the entire industrial revolution to ransom. all best, Andy -- Andy Farnell -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mail

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

2011-01-31 Thread Andy Farnell
ed? So, Ross, you are right, there are deeper, more troubling questions on my mind, but I'd like to keep focus on the software patent problem if we can, because many of us are experts here and deserve to have something to say. robert bristow-johnson wrote: w/ respects, andy-- -- Andy Far

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

2011-02-06 Thread Andy Farnell
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:23:52 + Richard Dobson wrote: > On 31/01/2011 12:53, Andy Farnell wrote: > Er, they aren't, and never have been. Hey Richard, Sure they "aren't allowed". But they de facto _have_ _been_ allowed, and that's why we're having

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

2011-02-07 Thread Andy Farnell
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 02:29:29 + Richard Dobson wrote: > On 06/02/2011 18:53, Andy Farnell wrote: > > Since there is nothing to divide the line between "this" virtual device > The DX7 is an automaton. But in principle it can be modeled by a UTM. > That does not mean

Re: [music-dsp] a multiband compression experiment

2011-02-08 Thread Andy Farnell
on means or tricks, so > the whole path appears to work neutral. > > Theo Verelst > > -- > 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] looking for a flexible synthesis system technically and legally appropriate for iOS development

2011-02-08 Thread Andy Farnell
Thomas > -- > 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 -- Andy Farnell -- dup

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

2011-02-08 Thread Andy Farnell
ious things were coming to fruition, and 6 years further still having to work hard to push forward, but there's an unmistakable trajectory to the project now. I think there's a lull in music production, as an art, except on fringes at present, and new opportunities for new synthesis methods

Re: [music-dsp] looking for a flexible synthesis system technically and legally appropriate for iOS development

2011-02-16 Thread Andy Farnell
installations. > > A Csound server is running > > this installation http://www.flyndresang.no/en/om/ since 2006 and will > > finish in 2016. Fairly impressive, even if I say so > > myself! > > > > Victor > > On 8 Feb 2011, at 20:55, Andy Farnell wrote: &

Re: [music-dsp] Modular synthesis percussion?

2011-02-17 Thread Andy Farnell
nfo, 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 > > > -- > dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: > subscription info, FAQ, sou

Re: [music-dsp] adaptive filter pitch detection?

2011-02-19 Thread Andy Farnell
lative to one or another pre-assigned matrix of possibilkities, some or other checklist. You have to say up front what counts as a feature. If you want to know if specific notes have been hit then a filterbank method combined with zero detection will work pretty quick. -- Andy Farnell -- dupsw

[music-dsp] Audio Mostly 2011

2011-03-10 Thread Andy Farnell
here for more info. http://www.audiomostly.com/ -- Andy Farnell -- 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

Re: [music-dsp] Fwd: digital EQ (passive) adding gain

2011-03-12 Thread Andy Farnell
were somehow corrupted in the process > 3. dc offset > 4. phase issue > > Any insights would be helpful > Thanks > Eldad > > > -- > dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: > subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp

Re: [music-dsp] good introductory microcontroller platform for audio tasks?

2011-04-20 Thread Andy Farnell
te: > 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 -- Andy Farnell -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FA

Re: [music-dsp] good introductory microcontroller platform for audio tasks?

2011-04-20 Thread Andy Farnell
These look really nice and affordable. On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:12:06 -0700 Eric Brombaugh wrote: > Microchip dsPIC -- Andy Farnell -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links h

Re: [music-dsp] good introductory microcontroller platform for audio tasks?

2011-04-20 Thread Andy Farnell
r. Happy to hear some advice from anyone who has tried similar in an educational setting. cheers, a. On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:50:52 +0100 Gwenhwyfaer wrote: > On 20/04/2011, Andy Farnell wrote: > >[re dsPIC] These look really nice and affordable. > > They're even more af

Re: [music-dsp] Long-term average spectra; testing A/D converter

2011-05-18 Thread Andy Farnell
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 -- Andy Farnell -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and webs

Re: [music-dsp] (very) old limiter thread

2011-06-27 Thread Andy Farnell
730 > > -- > > 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] Electrical Engineering Foundations

2011-08-24 Thread Andy Farnell
cussions, I'd like to point the attention of a lot of people in the > DSP corners of recreation and science, hobby and serious research to the > general foundations for Sampling Theory and Digital Signal Processing > and possibly information theory and filter knowledge. -- Andy F

Re: [music-dsp] music-dsp Digest, Vol 92, Issue 7

2011-08-26 Thread Andy Farnell
ng seriously into > > the subjects over the years in the day. > > > > Theo. > > -- > > dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: > > subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book > > reviews, dsp links > > http://music.col

Re: [music-dsp] Multichannel Stream Mixer

2011-08-30 Thread Andy Farnell
enough. > > It is. > > Add them. > > > -- > 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/ma

Re: [music-dsp] FM Synthesis

2011-09-12 Thread Andy Farnell
> dsp links > > http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp > > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp > > -- > dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: > subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp &g

Re: [music-dsp] Recording very long sound files

2011-09-14 Thread Andy Farnell
w.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl* > > -- > 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/listin

Re: [music-dsp] FM Synthesis

2011-09-14 Thread Andy Farnell
e easily. -- Andy Farnell -- 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] Recording very long sound files

2011-09-14 Thread Andy Farnell
ies in the recording? > > We want to avoid listening to dozens of hours of recordings. Also, the -- Andy Farnell -- 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/mu

Re: [music-dsp] FM Synthesis

2011-09-14 Thread Andy Farnell
ve, book reviews, > > dsp links > > http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp > > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp > > -- > > dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: > > subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, &

Re: [music-dsp] FM Synthesis

2011-09-15 Thread Andy Farnell
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:05:52 +0100 Gwenhwyfaer wrote: > A few points: > > On 12/09/2011, Andy Farnell wrote: > > > > If you are heading towards DX7 style FM then notice > > that only two of the oscillators (2 and 6) can have > > feedback, and that this is

Re: [music-dsp] Multichannel outputs (Audacity limitation)

2011-09-16 Thread Andy Farnell
edu/cmc/music-dsp > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp -- Andy Farnell -- 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] Multichannel outputs (Audacity limitation)

2011-09-17 Thread Andy Farnell
Sorry, I didn't read carefully the Windows requirement. On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:20:14 +0100 Andy Farnell wrote: > Ardour > > http://ardour.org/ > > a. > > > > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:26:21 -0500 > Al Clark wrote: > > > We are working on a USB

Re: [music-dsp] Recording very long sound files

2011-10-28 Thread Andy Farnell
175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2 > -- > 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/

Re: [music-dsp] Recording very long sound files

2011-10-29 Thread Andy Farnell
inks > http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp -- Andy Farnell -- 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] PhD thesis on musical instrument sound morphing

2011-12-15 Thread Andy Farnell
as that student. I know that you share a passion for high standards and rigour. A high appreciation of value differences would only make that sweeter. -- Andy Farnell -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book revie

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-22 Thread Andy Farnell
Speed of development is an issue, as turning ideas into sound uses considerable human cognition, echoic memory to listen, serial and linguistics faculties to interpret, and then geometric mathematical and procedural acrobatics to adapt the internal model. C gives great flexibility and control, b

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-22 Thread Andy Farnell
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 09:18:11AM -0500, Michael Gogins wrote: > I am writing an article about composing in C++ with the Csound API and > CsoundAC, and I will try to get it published in the Csound Journal or > elsewhere. Definitely looking forward to that Michael. -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-24 Thread Andy Farnell
> The problem with "plug unit generators languages" for me is that they > privilege the process (network of unit generators) over the content Some really interesting thoughts here Ross. At what level of granularity does the trade-off of control, flexibility and efficiency reach its sweet spot? I

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

2012-02-25 Thread Andy Farnell
When the lovely people at MIT added some extra cool graphics to my book cover I was initially dismayed to see the usual "funky oscilloscope trace" with a blue tint, looking like an electric spark. But everyone I showed it to, my friends and family all thought it was amazing and futuristic! So I

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-25 Thread Andy Farnell
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 01:21:05PM -0500, Charles Turner wrote: > On Feb 24, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Andy Farnell wrote: > > > Some really interesting thoughts here Ross. At what level of > > granularity does the trade-off of control, flexibility and > > efficiency reach

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

2012-02-25 Thread Andy Farnell
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:58:52AM +, Richard Dobson wrote: > On 25/02/2012 09:40, Andy Farnell wrote: > .. > And the harsh truth is that no competing search engine will succeeed > unless its name works well as a verb. Astute. Maybe the duck is doomed already. Unless it becom

Re: [music-dsp] Boulez

2012-02-25 Thread Andy Farnell
uot; in the process. Or am I missing something? > > On 2/25/12, Charles Turner wrote: > > On Feb 25, 2012, at 6:34 AM, Andy Farnell wrote: > > > >> And whereas I do agree with Pierre Boulez here, maybe it > >> is misguided to turn to reductionism and simplicity

Re: [music-dsp] Boulez

2012-02-25 Thread Andy Farnell
Hi Charles, > The book collects his Darmstadt lectures from 1954-56 Yes, that era fits better with the ideas conveyed. thanks for the clear up. > Isn't the point not to take sides, but recognize the tension? Definitely. You are absolutely right. That was where I was headed with my remarks. >

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-26 Thread Andy Farnell
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 09:11:10AM -0500, 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. >

Re: [music-dsp] guitar physical model

2012-02-26 Thread Andy Farnell
Me too, Some great Steve Hillage like moments in that. On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:52:12AM +0100, Emanuel Landeholm wrote: > >        http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/music/mp3/Rough_Raga_Riffs.mp3 > > This. I just listened to it and it put me in a good mood! > -- > dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp ma

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-26 Thread Andy Farnell
As_101] Obviously this requires one to think about difficult problems where control and signals are closely coupled in subtly different ways for each language. best, Andy On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 09:47:45AM -0500, Brad Garton wrote: > On Feb 26, 2012, at 9:38 AM, Andy Farnell wrote: > >

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-26 Thread Andy Farnell
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 04:01:52PM +, Richard Dobson wrote: > For my sonification work for LHCsound, I used Perl to parse data > files and generate Csound scores, simply because it is a task Perl > is canonically optimised to do and scripts can be run up very > quickly. Just a quick +1 for

[music-dsp] Scheduling (rate vs event) was: a little about myself

2012-02-27 Thread Andy Farnell
Hi Ross > Hi Andy, > Some comments, and questions for clarification... > > There is_always_ an audio signal but there are sometimes no control > > messages > > > > Control messages are computed on a block boundary > Given this formulation, that the control message scheduler is only > pumped o

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-28 Thread Andy Farnell
> On 28/02/2012 00:43, Michael Gogins wrote: > .. > > > >What I would dearly love to hear in this discussion is how Csound can > >be improved to facilitate the creation of music, from people who do > >use software to compose and create their music. Or how some other > >software might be better, for

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-28 Thread Andy Farnell
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 were to say to you about such and such a

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-28 Thread Andy Farnell
Thanks John, These are all very useful. Some of them, the last three, I have used before to create timeouts, The others I should pay more attention to. Apparently not covered by these: I would like a mechanism, not sure whether this would be an opcode or a general (global) language feature,

Re: [music-dsp] very cheap synthesis techniques

2012-02-28 Thread Andy Farnell
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:00:54PM -0800, Nigel Redmon wrote: > wiring CMOS buffer outputs to their own inputs (perhaps through a resistor Using inverter gates is an old trick for making very cheap oscillators. With some cells arranged to give you 6v and a bit of wire attached to the output pin

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-28 Thread Andy Farnell
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 03:16:14PM -0500, Adam Puckett wrote: > Andy, > > there's an opcode called active that does what you want 'numalloc' to do: > > http://csounds.com/manual/html/active.html Thanks Adam! That's a big help to some of my projects, I'll take a look at it. cheers, Andy -- dups

Re: [music-dsp] maintaining musicdsp.org

2012-04-11 Thread Andy Farnell
Some great points of advice for any site there! Would jump in but my PHP skills are rotten. Possibly a job for a web student over summer? On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 01:50:55PM -0600, Roberta wrote: > I'm a little late to the party but -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: su

Re: [music-dsp] ANN: Book: The Art of VA Filter Design

2012-05-26 Thread Andy Farnell
Thanks for this Vadim, it looks like an amazing compendium and well structured for students to learn from. On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:54:25AM +0200, Vadim Zavalishin wrote: > Hi all > > This is kind of a cross-announcement from KVRAudio, but since there > are probably a number of different peopl

Re: [music-dsp] Pointers for auto-classification of sounds?

2012-06-08 Thread Andy Farnell
IIRC William Brent made some good "Timbre Stamp" externals for Pd based on Paul Brosiers libaubio and other decomposition and feature extraction. Much of that does the things Robert mentions. There are simple first order things like pitch and amplitude Complex aggregate things like roughness/harm

Re: [music-dsp] .wav file format conversion tools

2012-06-08 Thread Andy Farnell
You could write this in a jiffy with libsndfile or something right. Andy On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 01:22:59PM -0700, Linda Seltzer wrote: > Does anyone know of a tool that converts a .wav file into wave extensible > format with the PCM subtype rather than the IEEE floating point subtype? > > Lin

Re: [music-dsp] Pointers for auto-classification of sounds?

2012-06-13 Thread Andy Farnell
I would second that. My research in the 1990s led to the same conclusion, in essence the parametric space is vast while the perceptually useful space is very small and sparsely dotted around in the param space. Upshot: needle in a haystack Andy On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:13:03AM +0100, Dan S

Re: [music-dsp] _ Pointers for auto-classification of sounds?

2012-06-14 Thread Andy Farnell
> > Upshot: needle in a haystack > i dunno about that. at least for classifying isolated musical > notes, you'll do better than needle in haystack by representing > notes broken down into parameter "trajectories" (for lack of a > better word) that include amplitude, pitch, and various > timber-r

Re: [music-dsp] _ Pointers for auto-classification of sounds?

2012-06-17 Thread Andy Farnell
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 05:50:59PM +1000, Ross Bencina wrote: > On 14/06/2012 5:29 PM, Andy Farnell wrote: > >Maybe this isn't the same hazard of dimensionality that Dan > >warns us of... I'm saying the space is definitely_warped_ > >with big areas of nothingness

Re: [music-dsp] Noise gate for guitar amplifiers and hysteresis

2012-07-04 Thread Andy Farnell
Another take that comes to mind from servo/control electronics, is that the ramp and the hysteresis don't have to be considered as separate blocks. Instead of a 'hard' hysteresis like schmitt trigger, followed by a linear ramp or LPF, make the rate of change of gain proportional to some function ab

Re: [music-dsp] programming for electric pickups

2012-07-04 Thread Andy Farnell
All I can think is that hammered strings are a gift when it comes to transient detection, so you should be able to do quite nice digital processing of dulcimer. Especially with a multi channel 'pickup per sting' cheers, Andy On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 01:07:52AM +0430, Sajjad Abdoli wrote: > Dear

[music-dsp] Aalborg openings

2012-07-17 Thread Andy Farnell
I'm posting this to one or two lists, please excuse me if you've seen it already Some relevant new academic positions for comp music and DSPers Cheers, Andy FW: --- Regards, Mark ### Music research at Aalborg University, with support from the Obel Fam

Re: [music-dsp] ARM for DSP

2012-09-25 Thread Andy Farnell
How do you develop code for these Eric? What is your toolchain? best Andy On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:43:09AM -0700, Eric Brombaugh wrote: > The STM32F4 series parts are cheap, fast, powerful for their class. > Not really on par with the Cortex A8 and Atom machines but great for > embedded. > >

Re: [music-dsp] DAFx 2012 - Software Development for Audio and Music Researchers Tutorial

2012-10-20 Thread Andy Farnell
Great to see prof Mark Plumbley talking some sense to the train wreck of the present academic trajecory in those slides. On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 05:52:09PM +0100, Luis Figueira wrote: > Dear MUSIC-DSP list members, > > we'd like to let you know that the handouts, slides and other materials

Re: [music-dsp] DAFx 2012 - Software Development for Audio and Music Researchers Tutorial

2012-10-20 Thread Andy Farnell
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote: > What do you mean? In Mark's slides. The case for proper publication, documentation, open access and intellectual honesty. The values that most of us old beards consider to be the foundation of _real_ science. Or are you askin

Re: [music-dsp] DAFx 2012 - Software Development for Audio and Music Researchers Tutorial

2012-10-20 Thread Andy Farnell
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 03:25:29PM -0400, Michael Gogins wrote: > Please if you write code as part of your research, use C or C++ as > these are the standard systems programming languages for commercial, > government, and scientific research in critical and numerical systems. Space is often a li

Re: [music-dsp] need help with gnuplot and octave on my mac.

2012-10-26 Thread Andy Farnell
Hi Robert, Not sure I can help because I am not a Mac user, but I do use Octave and Gnuplot fairly regularly. I wonder is there systematic change in the way Mac supports X graphics? One thought, I stopped using environment variables with Gnuplot and always use a .gnuplot config (according t

Re: [music-dsp] Please consider this Parallella supercomputer kickstarter

2012-10-26 Thread Andy Farnell
Any other comments in defence, cos I'm sitting here with my money about to invest. :/ Andy On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:12:23PM -0700, Eric Brombaugh wrote: > I've been discussing this Adapteva outfit's Kickstarter with a bunch > of other embedded processing / ASIC / DSP guys and it just doesn't

Re: [music-dsp] Please consider this Parallella supercomputer kickstarter

2012-10-27 Thread Andy Farnell
Wonderful news. Occam, that brings back some memories from CS class. Now, I just hope the Parallela can deliver better than the Raspberry Pi did. In my rather frank opinion, the Raspberry Pi has been horribly, horribly managed and stands as a model of an inherent tension in crowd driven project

Re: [music-dsp] Precision issues when mixing a large number of signals

2012-12-11 Thread Andy Farnell
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 01:39:48PM +1100, Ross Bencina wrote: > avoid any loss of precision due to truncation... etc. There is also > arbitrary precision arithmetic if you don't want to throw any bits > away. This seemed most pertainent to Alessandro's requirement that N was unknown and might be

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

2013-02-21 Thread Andy Farnell
I have noticed Ross, that I tend to seek out music that reflects an already emerging emotion, such that the music then precipitates a physiological emotion. If I am in the mood to be excited by Bizet or the Furious Five MCs, then Radiohead or Gorecki cannot sadden me. And conversely. The longer I

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

2013-02-22 Thread Andy Farnell
Hi Mathieu, I think, as research goes, you've struck gold. It might not serve the immediate goals, or feel like it right now, but frequently where you encounter strong opinions in a line of enquiry it verifies the work has value, although you may need to look hard at what that value is. Wi

Re: [music-dsp] Thesis topic on procedural-audio in video games?

2013-03-05 Thread Andy Farnell
Of the many directions I have discussed with my masters and doctoral students it's possible to see a breakdown into several categories with some overlap into HCI, CG, SID and DSP. The application of a given synthesis method to a specific class of sounding object. Behavioural or interaction models

Re: [music-dsp] HTML

2013-08-09 Thread Andy Farnell
Since the problem with HTML is on the sender/input side (some people being unable _not_ to send HTML, and text/plain being a subset of the HTML) then it's likely a procmail filter in mailman can make life easier for more senders without pissing off the established readers who use text only capabil

Re: [music-dsp] entropy

2014-10-20 Thread Andy Farnell
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:00:13AM -0700, Ethan Duni wrote: > Meanwhile, I'll point out that it's been a long time since anybody on this > thread has even attempted to say anything even tangentially related to > music dsp. The first thing that came to my mind after seeing Peter's image processi

Re: [music-dsp] How to synthesize a short speech-like signal

2010-11-17 Thread Andy Farnell
k > -- > 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 -- Andy Farnell -- dupswa

Re: [music-dsp] [OT] vinyl? No, thanks...

2010-11-20 Thread Andy Farnell
lumbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp > > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp > > -- > 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 -- Andy Farnell -- 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] [OT] vinyl? No, thanks...

2010-11-21 Thread Andy Farnell
playable. > > Peter > -- > 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] who else needs a fractional delay.

2010-11-22 Thread Andy Farnell
s. here's one with > less context.. -- Andy Farnell -- 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] [OT] vinyl? No, thanks...

2010-11-28 Thread Andy Farnell
t case. -- Andy Farnell -- 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] [OT] vinyl? No, thanks...

2010-11-28 Thread Andy Farnell
ink that's the claim by vinyl lovers. A better test would be > acoustic instruments, including orchestra and voice. We know what those sound > like in the absence of any recording, so you're left with comparing > reproductions, CD and vinyl. > > > On Nov 28, 201

Re: [music-dsp] [OT] vinyl? No, thanks...

2010-11-28 Thread Andy Farnell
> > > > > > -- > 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-ds

Re: [music-dsp] [OT] vinyl? No, thanks...

2010-11-28 Thread Andy Farnell
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:24:41 -0500 Stephen Sinclair wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Andy Farnell > wrote: > > > > And surely that comparison, between any two > > sources, regardless of their measurable quality, would > > remain valid? It doesn't ma

Re: [music-dsp] [OT] vinyl? No, thanks...

2010-11-29 Thread Andy Farnell
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:12:11 - "Dave Hoskins" wrote: > And it had approx. 20,000 components in the thing! > Dave. And they built the early ones by hand. -- Andy Farnell -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archi

Re: [music-dsp] [OT] vinyl? No, thanks...

2010-11-29 Thread Andy Farnell
o you tend to master differently at the intro than the outro - that must have influenced a lot of music. a. On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:33:46 +0100 David Reaves wrote: > until it reaches its extremes digital does not 'strain' to reproduce its > signal -- Andy Farnell -- dupswapdrop -- th

Re: [music-dsp] [OT] vinyl? No, thanks...

2010-11-30 Thread Andy Farnell
make them seem louder (integration effect). On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:04:16 -0600 Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: > Not loud/soft passages as such but the individual > attacks of percussion or acoustic instruments which seem to contain > more detail on vinyl. -- Andy Farnell -- dupswapdr

Re: [music-dsp] A theory of optimal splicing of audio in the time domain.

2010-12-06 Thread Andy Farnell
Thanks for sharing these thoughts Robert. On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 03:38:28 -0500 robert bristow-johnson wrote: > This is a continuation of the thread started by Element Green titled: > Algorithms for finding seamless loops in audio > -- Andy Farnell -- dupswapdrop -- the music-ds

Re: [music-dsp] FIR filter question

2010-12-06 Thread Andy Farnell
-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 -- Andy Farnell -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailin

Re: [music-dsp] Writing a piano simulation software

2010-12-09 Thread Andy Farnell
; > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Writing-a-piano-simulation-software-tp30412931p30412931.html > Sent from the Music-DSP mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: > subscription info, FAQ,

Re: [music-dsp] [OT] vinyl? No, thanks...

2010-12-13 Thread Andy Farnell
-johnson wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2010, at 8:30 AM, Andy Farnell wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:12:11 - > > "Dave Hoskins" wrote: > > > >> And it had approx. 20,000 components in the thing! > >> Dave. > > > > &

Re: [music-dsp] Is beating the same thing as flanging?

2010-12-13 Thread Andy Farnell
eover.org/Audio/index2.html > > -- > 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] Creating and maintaining digital signal processing graphs

2016-05-10 Thread Andy Farnell
Old-skool method, but effective: If you build an environemnt by issuing connections on command line you can replay them from a script. I have successfully used simple script command to capture a command line history and then use it to start-up a project again. Andy On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 02:26

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