about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2021-11-19 Thread Sampo Syreeni
rk, and even nonlinearity doesn't naively help. This project of mine is basically stalled because of that. So, please help me 1) latch on right for occasional acquisition without synchroneity or metadata, 2) do low computational complexity and high statistical homogeneity serial random

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2021-11-19 Thread Sampo Syreeni
best type of signal after filtering that you could find, through gradient descent of the dithering or whatever else. Gradient descent towards which penalty function, over what? -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2021-11-20 Thread Sampo Syreeni
mewhat counter to the intention of a *hidden* channel, since you could achieve much the same by just passing the extra information in a scrambled for in the low order bits, and going with TPDF for the utility signal higher up. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2021-11-20 Thread Sampo Syreeni
possible to later on unprocess from the signal even coding faults which would be of no significance in usual audio work. Seriously, I've thought about this stuff for quite a while now, and would like ideas. (Some of which I've already gotten; thank ya'll!) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2021-11-20 Thread Sampo Syreeni
a codec. I'm trying to subtractively dither arbitrary signals, so that we don't have to add noise to the utility signal. Coding theoretically, I'm then trying to spread out the synchronization signal that I need, as far as possible, and to derive it from the entropy in the signal itsel

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2021-11-20 Thread Sampo Syreeni
aybe even with SBM-style noise shaping, and whatnot. But then -- mostly regardless of what you dithered with, if the amplitude is great enough -- once you do coherent subtraction, you're left with a measurement grade background. Which is what I aim at. For reasons. Just not quite there yet.

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2021-11-20 Thread Sampo Syreeni
r for signal enhancement? No enhancement. Just a self-synchronizing trigger for subtractive dither. So that I could come up with high grade and easy to implement subtractive dither, for general PCM circuits. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-07 Thread Sampo Syreeni
ively dithered ones. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-07 Thread Sampo Syreeni
the recording amenable to further processing, without noise accumulation. Nothing lost, some gained. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-07 Thread Sampo Syreeni
ourse. But that floor is a whole 6dB lower for subtractive dither, as opposed to additive RPDF, and evenmore for the typical TPDF additive signal. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-07 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2021-11-20, Zhiguang Zhang wrote: from what i've been taught, the function of dither is to decorrelate noise from the signal. Dither decorrelates quantization error from the utility signal. Not noise. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-37

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-07 Thread Sampo Syreeni
e ultimate limit.) You're no worse off with the additive dither than you would be otherwise. But you are.  The dither generated this way is still useful dither. There you are right. But it isn't optimal, like subtractive is. ;) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-07 Thread Sampo Syreeni
I'm after is a very simple means of doing subtractive dither. Something which could be placed at every incoming and outgoing A/D/C and computational algorithm, at negligible cost. So that it might become a standard, yielding some 6dB's worth of extra range *everywhere*. It's po

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-07 Thread Sampo Syreeni
e who can afford the helium pumps, usually only do 1-3 bits, really *really* fast. In millimeterwave radioastronomy, not in acoustics. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
n) This on the other hand I don't. Which is weird, because as a Gerzon-ambisonics freak I ought to. Might you not give a reference to the paper? ;) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
the experiment—too many other things on the list. :-D Thus, each of us will probably just carry on. It's not as though I'd be able to even commecialise thise stuff. :) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
lacrum of linearity this stuff is). -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: [ot] about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
Them idjits, some of which already have their frozen heads tanked in liquid nitrogen. As though it could ever last... :D -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
otocol for all digitized analogue signals. Brazen, I know, but why if not? ;) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
so. As such, I'm the numerical kind of guy, almost from birth. When I bumped into the idea of coherent decoding versus decoherent, it was almost weird to see anything decoded absent coherence.) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
earchgate.net/profile/Malcolm-Hawksford-2/publication/321705393_A_Compilation_of_Technical_Papers_on_Stereo_and_Spatial_Audio/links/5a2be8af0f7e9b63e53abd4f/A-Compilation-of-Technical-Papers-on-Stereo-and-Spatial-Audio.pdf -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40

Re: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific)

2022-01-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
they claim. Take a look at Acoustic Reneissance for Audio papers. (I seem to remember Stuart and Craven might have had their hand in, there.) They make the case that something like 26kHz sampling and 14 bits, with noise shaping, covers the whole auditory band. Even for them yoot. -- Sampo Syre

MQA, generalized sampling and the lot (was: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific))

2022-01-29 Thread Sampo Syreeni
ons to their premises, there are also various objections to the business model they've now led to. My pirate friends consider the whole enterprise to be an attempted IP coup, of the like of Sony's SACD/DSD, right at the time of CD patents expiry. The stuff sounds like snakeoil and all-round b

about analogue wideband measurements (was: MQA, generalized sampling and the lot)

2022-01-29 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2022-01-30, Sampo Syreeni wrote: There's at least one paper somewhere which systematically tested how binaural (then called dichotic) localisation accuracy depended on the bandwidth (and so inverse time localisation) of brief pulses. In it, it was shown that localisation accuracy decr

Re: MQA, generalized sampling and the lot (was: about subtractive dither, for audio and other use (also scientific))

2022-01-31 Thread Sampo Syreeni
rs, and AES Fellows), sells to my eye, sheer snakeoil. Stuff that just doesn't stand upto a priori scrutiny. What *fuck* went through their heads, because they of *all* people ought to know better?!? -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

OT: wave-particle duality (was: MQA, generalized sampling and the lot)

2022-01-31 Thread Sampo Syreeni
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant_subspace_problem I enjoyed this story a great deal, reminds me of my undergrad intern days :P If you don't mind me asking, what was your area of expertise, and where do you move now? Here, long term unemployed. ;) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: OT: wave-particle duality

2022-02-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
time time-frequency decompositions such as wavelets and Gabor transforms, can in fact yield lots of geometrically invariant structure. It is just obscured in the DSP framework, where we have a running time dimension, where There Can Be Only One.) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: on Haptic .. Re: 2nd CfP: International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID 2022) London, UK, 24-26 August 2022

2022-04-28 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2022-04-26, Joseph Melotte wrote: What means here Haptic .. ? To have to do with touch. Often with haptic feedback, so as to do with servo loops where your device vibrates or kicks your finger back a little bit. "It feels like it's there." -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy

Re: on Haptic .. Re: 2nd CfP: International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID 2022) London, UK, 24-26 August 2022

2022-04-28 Thread Sampo Syreeni
, musical, servo loop. (And in fact we do all of it much more readily using all of the sensory modailities, at the same time.) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

about principled rendering of ambisonic to binaural

2022-09-11 Thread Sampo Syreeni
rom arbitrary point clouds to regularized, isotropic, optimized, ambisonic -> binaural mappings? -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__decoy.iki.fi_front&d=DwIBAg&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=0KP05IfooxNI4bMGut-bPu

Re: about principled rendering of ambisonic to binaural

2022-10-16 Thread Sampo Syreeni
ic, psychoacoustically viable means of reducing high anisotropic wideband measurements to a lower order isotropic representation of a soundfield over a human head. Which is what I started this thread about. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=

Re: Has anyone done or heard of stochastic reverb?

2022-12-04 Thread Sampo Syreeni
h DC. Also do this gently, because as you apodize/window either of time response or the reciprodical frequency one, you'd be apt to introduce irregularities and oscillations on the other side. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__dec

Re: Has anyone done or heard of stochastic reverb?

2022-12-04 Thread Sampo Syreeni
on DSP, you'd actually probably like to talk about numerically induced noise, drift, and the stability problems they cause. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__decoy.iki.fi_front&d=DwIDaQ&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q

Re: Has anyone done or heard of stochastic reverb?

2022-12-04 Thread Sampo Syreeni
-delay convolution algorithm. What you'd get is a purely linear zero-delay algorithm, able to dealing with time-variance. Able to be parallelized via usual MPI and whatnot. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__decoy.iki.fi_front&

Re: Has anyone done or heard of stochastic reverb?

2022-12-25 Thread Sampo Syreeni
ory of translation invariant linear spaces. It's just beautiful, and would answer these kinds of questions better than I ever can. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__decoy.iki.fi_front&d=DwIDbA&c=009klH

Re: Has anyone done or heard of stochastic reverb?

2022-12-29 Thread Sampo Syreeni
nd. Some others might also have a lot to talk about the aesthetic side of music/audio DSP; the history; whatnot. Perhaps it might be beneficial to the list and even the wider audio processing/DSP community to start a (never-ending) thread of posts on this stuff, eventually covering it all? Surely the newbie

Re: Has anyone done or heard of stochastic reverb?

2022-12-29 Thread Sampo Syreeni
x27;re wrong. Because if I continuously advance a sinusoid's phase, eventually it'll reach inverse phase. That's just the nature of shift-invariant spaces and their Fourier bases. It's kind of a weird symmetry, but it necessarily exists, and then, There Can Be Only One. ;) -- S

[ot] about shifting interference, heard out loud

2023-01-03 Thread Sampo Syreeni
hear the beating, as opposed to a regular short beat additional or divisional polyrhythm, they'll go "ah!", and then off to do something much more useful. Seriously, this shit is pedagogic/didactic, even if it's only about "art". -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy

Re: [ot] about shifting interference, heard out loud

2023-01-06 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2023-01-05, Earl Vickers wrote: Very nice writing, thanks! Thanks, but actually I've done much better when I was sober. Some twenty years ago or so. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__decoy.iki.fi_front&d

Re: Open Audio Algorithm / ML R&D Positions at Apple

2023-01-11 Thread Sampo Syreeni
tial Audio, Voice Isolation, Headphone Accommodations, and Apple Music Sing. No disrespect, but if you're such a highly regarded Apple fiend, why do you hail from a gmail address, in all caps? It's kind of jarring. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, https://urldefense.proofpoin

Re: Open Audio Algorithm / ML R&D Positions at Apple

2023-01-18 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2023-01-12, STEFFAN DIEDRICHSEN wrote: Your email address also has capital letters. No, it does not. It never had. And I, who’s working at Apple, too, use a private email address for this mailing list as well. I've never worked at Apple. Come, now. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy

Re: Open Audio Algorithm / ML R&D Positions at Apple

2023-01-18 Thread Sampo Syreeni
al. Applied all over the sphere, as ambisonic quadrature does. Whew, the possibility of doing low weight superresolution *is* there. Yet I don't think that will be done by people who spell out their Apple addresses in all caps. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, https://urldefens

Re: Are there now 64-bit processors that deal with denorms routinely with no exception or interrupt?

2023-04-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
uarantee in the IEEE standard between hardware and software. Sure, it *says* there is, and it goes into great intuitive detail in it. But in practice, there isn't a *shred* of proof those intuitive ideas actually work. Which they then really don't. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@

Re: Are there now 64-bit processors that deal with denorms routinely with no exception or interrupt?

2023-04-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
ied the architecture down from denormals, DnD's, infinitudes, asynchronous exceptions, and the like. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__decoy.iki.fi_front&d=DwIBAg&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&

Re: Are there now 64-bit processors that deal with denorms routinely with no exception or interrupt?

2023-04-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
nd, which only local astronomical simulations really require; only distant ones really then require the exponent. At all. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__decoy.iki.fi_front&d=DwIBAg&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vN

an old treatise (re: DSP book as the Steiglitz book WITH everything implemented in c/c++, and dsp programming tutors)

2023-04-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
GW-64). So it is. From Eric de Castro Lopo. He's also made it a point of making his library easy to use, and for it to separate concerns. Nice work, say I as well! -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__decoy.iki.fi_front&d=DwIBAg&

Re: Are there now 64-bit processors that deal with denorms routinely with no exception or interrupt?

2023-04-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
denorms and have to set the FTZ and DAZ bits to avoid denorm exceptions There should be no denorm exceptions anymore. Agreed. Denorms might sometimes be wanted, but the way they're reported is one piece of shit. Also makes it difficult to push sil

Re: Are there now 64-bit processors that deal with denorms routinely with no exception or interrupt?

2023-04-24 Thread Sampo Syreeni
e of even a 32-bit float, because 1) going lower than 1-bit would be unhearable, and 2) going to the full 24 bits would literally split your ears. Then between those wide limits, you have full linearity, which helps you produce better and more stable algorithms. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka

Re: Rendering note with dynamic low-pass filter by cross fading

2023-05-10 Thread Sampo Syreeni
h nonlinear and sluggish in its parametrization. But then those qualities give it its signature tone and value on the market. Its "imperfections" really made it the brand it became. Why not strive for something of similar character, instead of trying to iron out theoretical disagree

Re: Rendering note with dynamic low-pass filter by cross fading

2023-05-10 Thread Sampo Syreeni
in. What I'd like to know from the original poster, is, what is the precise problem se'd like to solve using the z-transform, and why is it needed here. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__decoy.iki.fi_front&a

Re: Are there now 64-bit processors that deal with denorms routinely with no exception or interrupt?

2023-05-10 Thread Sampo Syreeni
unlike how we deal with linear wave phenomena such as sound, and how linearly we as people tend to perceive them. (And sorry, I might be responding to myself. If so, you ought to be chevroning my post as well...well. Top-posting in particular is difficult to a

Re: Are there now 64-bit processors that deal with denorms routinely with no exception or interrupt?

2023-08-05 Thread Sampo Syreeni
other way will land with you with a truly stable and trustworthy algorithm. If need be, and if you *really* want me to do so, I can build you an example of what I'm talking about. It'd take its time. But I sorta think, as a known better o