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

2013-02-22 Thread Dave Hoskins
On 21/02/2013 20:58, mathieu barthet wrote: -- Apologies for potential cross-postings -- ** M4 Music Mood Recommendation Survey ** ** https://www.bbcarp.org.uk/m4/UserTrial ** [After a recent discussion on music and emoti

Re: [music-dsp] Ghost tone

2012-12-07 Thread Dave Hoskins
On 07/12/2012 04:40, Didier Dambrin wrote: But (assuming you're talking about ghost fundamental) 1. wouldn't the pattern (diff pattern but same period) of the phase-messed version be recognized as well? If you look at the waveform zoomed out you can see and measure a repeating pattern ev

Re: [music-dsp] Ghost tone

2012-12-06 Thread Dave Hoskins
On 06/12/2012 14:53, Didier Dambrin wrote: But (assuming you're talking about ghost fundamental) 1. wouldn't the pattern (diff pattern but same period) of the phase-messed version be recognized as well? If you look at the waveform zoomed out you can see and measure a repeating pattern every

Re: [music-dsp] Ghost tone

2012-12-06 Thread Dave Hoskins
On 06/12/2012 05:50, Didier Dambrin wrote: Hi, Here's something to listen to: http://flstudio.image-line.com/help/publicfiles_gol/GhostTone.wav It's divided in 2 parts, the same bunch of sine harmonics in the upper range, only difference is the phase alignment. (both will appear similar th

Re: [music-dsp] Listening test: Perceptual Similarity of Percussive Musical Instrument Sounds (5 min)

2012-11-29 Thread Dave Hoskins
Smeared transients are a bad thing! : ) I would be interested to know how non-music types fair with the test. Dave. On 29/11/2012 10:47, Marcelo Caetano wrote: Dear list, We are looking for participants to take a short (~5 minutes) listening test online to evaluate the perceptual similari

Re: [music-dsp] Window presum synthesis

2012-04-23 Thread Dave Hoskins
On 23/04/2012 11:49, Domagoj Šarić wrote: On 23 April 2012 12:20, Domagoj Šarić wrote: More importantly, yes, the code does have resynthesis and the way it avoids the flanging (or echo for larger frame sizes) artefacts (that you get from adding the frame-size-delayed copy of the signal to itse

Re: [music-dsp] WOLA and the phase vocoder

2012-04-20 Thread Dave Hoskins
Have you tried a sine window for both analysis and syntheses yet? It's used in MPEG according to here:- https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/sasp/MLT_Sine_Window.html Although I think it's supposed to be 'M-1' instead of M, I'm not sure

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-26 Thread Dave Hoskins
On 26/02/2012 16:11, j...@cs.bath.ac.uk wrote: On Feb 26, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Ross Bencina wrote: In my view, anyone who cares about being a composer of *computer music* (in the context of this discussion) needs at least the following (or equivalent) undergraduate knowledge: 1) music compositi

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

2012-02-25 Thread Dave Hoskins
"The waves form a repeating pattern: There's a large blue curve, followed by a shallow red, shallow yellow, deep blue, skinny green, and one final red curve. Those lines match the general shape of Google's traditional logo: Uppercase blue G, small Os, a lowercase g, a skinny green L, and a red

Re: [music-dsp] anyone care to take a look at the Additivesynthesis > article at Wikipedia?

2012-01-11 Thread Dave Hoskins
On 11/01/2012 14:39, Alen Koebel wrote: Also, things that are considered correct don't necessarily stay correct. That also works in reverse. Things that were correct on Wikipedia can be become incorrect in the blink of an eye. For every contributor that actually knows something about a subje

Re: [music-dsp] Orfanidis-style filter design

2011-12-09 Thread Dave Hoskins
well, since, i have received a pdf copy of the Christensen paper. i am willing to send it along to any small quantity of people who ask. i realize the AES would rather that people get the paper from them and pay for it, but if the cost is $20 (for non-members), they cannot expect a lot of com

Re: [music-dsp] Noise performance of f32 iir filters

2011-10-03 Thread Dave Hoskins
Nigel Redmon wrote: > (not to mention ATM--geez how many meanings can that one attain?). thefreedictionary.com lists 106 meanings... http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/ATM At The Moment, According To Me, the Advanced Testing Method for Automated Theorem Provers is to read the Acceptance Tes

Re: [music-dsp] Hardware Sampler Timestretch

2011-06-28 Thread Dave Hoskins
I was also thinking about a live-input version so all this helps. how does a live-input version get done in real time? how long can you let the box go do tine-stretching of the live input? eventually the input is so far delayed behind the output that some buffer will burst at the seams.

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

2011-01-29 Thread Dave Hoskins
Hey Ross, I don't want to open up a lengthy OT debate here. But will reply privately to address some of your points in detail. I think there are at least three separate issues here: 1. Whether one believes that granting 20 year monopoly rights for an invention should be acceptable in our socie

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

2011-01-28 Thread Dave Hoskins
I would have thought that the whole point of a patent is to make money. A scientific paper, IMHO, is the way to move the field forward. Victor On 28 Jan 2011, at 18:02, Dave Hoskins wrote: Not officially of course. Officially it's a happy sing-a-long camp of sharing inventors. The

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

2011-01-28 Thread Dave Hoskins
Dear Andreas, You are absolutely right. Unfortunately, this is a common practice of large corporations (i.e., they use their financial power first to pass initial examination stage and then to prevent re-examination requests). Regarding the mentioned company, they have even patented companding s

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

2010-11-29 Thread Dave Hoskins
;) Btw, it's not that big of an issue at all. I just wasn't buying that recordings from the days of fairlight are actually 12 bit. Sometimes I wonder why I often think that the fairlight and the synclavier were the most intriguing digital systems ever made. But of course, if you need 100k to

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

2010-11-28 Thread Dave Hoskins
Hi Nigel, Yes we _expect_ that. And hence my point is precisely the opposite. You state the age old argument. This is exactly how I would have put it countless times before. Sheer frustration at playing the rational argument forces one to examine alternatives. The fact that this discussion still