Most musicians who also hang around on the other side of the mixing desk will likely have encountered convolution in its most common application for musicians and producers – reverb. A convolution reverb (such as the well known Waves IR-1 plugin) is a great way to recreate a physical space in a recording, such as
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FFFT?
Last week I posted on twitter about an upcoming paper to be presented at SODA (Symposium on Discrete Algorithms). The new algorithm for the calculation of the Nearly Optimal Sparse Fourier Transform (Abstract). This new algorithm for certain specialized cases of the Discrete Fourier Transform, which allows processing of digital signals to create JPEG images,
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Techchrunch just tweeted about a free online app for making music called Musicshake. It’s an interesting concept, designed to make building songs (building is definitely the operative word) easy. You create songs by setting the tempo (they have a wizard for different styles to get you started) and adding instruments garageband style. Where they make
Continue reading »Google Calculator and Graphs
I use google’s built in search features a lot, especially for converting units such as mm to inches, Fahrenheit to Celsius and so on. You just type the query directly into the search field and voila. Recently Google has added some new functionality with graphs. Searching a mathematical function such as sin(t) will
Continue reading »Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
A wonderfully entertaining look at orchestral music from Bill Bailey (if you haven’t seen him before check out Bill Bailey: Part Troll or Black Books), whether you’ve memorized your Study of Orchestration inside out or are pretty new to the orchestra it’s well worth a look.
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