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Richard Dobson wrote:
> You might be interested in the SDIF initiative at CNMAT:
> http://cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU/SDIF/
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Great project: the "music industry" (such as it is)will have to put moneybehind
it for it to be adopted / implemented in any large way (certainly the
technology is exciting to us...)
But, I worry a lot (as I gather others here have) about the ubiquitous nature
of these compressed audio streams...I mean MPEG, I mean the new film
audioformats, etc. These are wonderfuly engineered maintainers of the
original signals' timbre & tonal balance, generally, but phase information is
completely lost!!! I *love* the clear sharp audiofile 'image' that one gets
from phase coherent projection of midrange tones. You can get
those experiences regularly with skillful electronic synthesis/mixing,
and two speakers or headphones can be a wonderful surround sound experience...
with true "depth"!
one much more convincing than the purely volume/production direction
effects of the large movie house . Think about it: AC-3 standard *needs* 5
speakers for surround sound...it just plays a sound of some volume from
some direction...it's a strange diffuse sound image: the illusion of the crash
from behind emerging from another aural universe.
Ah, me, I'm just rambling on because I don't want to be a software geek
anymore. I wanna play trumpet. I want to write music.& my mom is very sick.
And I think my hometown university (Florida State U School of Music) will pass
me up for their new computer music teaching slot, like so many before.
So I'll stay here in a boring damn hack job. Wah.
And I have to go to bed now, no more music for today. Snif.
Take Care, all.
Char lieB
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