Well sort of. He’s been ranting a bit again recently. He’s always hated MP3 and CD as media. He was a big proponent of DVD-A (96kHz, 24 bit) and now claims he was working on another format with Steve Jobs to return to the actual potential of digital music. It’s true that a lot of
Continue reading »Music Business Seminar- “Recession Proof”
I’m off to Berkeley this morning to attend the Music Business Seminar held by the California Lawyers for the Arts. They’ve put on a full schedule of events including a keynote address from Erik Metzger, patent attorney for Intel, and panelists including speakers from Pandora and other digital music ventures. Sessions include DIY Marketing, Make
Continue reading »Creative Convolution – Part 2
In Part 1 we described the Impulse Response and how that can be used to characterize a room, which can be used to add a specific reverb to an audio track. In this post we’ll explore the process by which this is carried out, which is convolution. So what is convolution? If you have two
Continue reading »Creative Convolution – Part 1
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
Continue reading »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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