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  • #2
    jtsuited
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    to be honest i don't think this technology has any sort of implications 'for the future of both sound and music production'.

    my guess is that it's a resynthesis engine that uses the various different formants of human speech and rearranges them according to meaning (if you get what i mean).

    i do think however it could have implications in more mundane everyday translation things. Maybe.
    And you can hear that when the voice changes language it sounds like a chopped up reversed sample. Something i would not like to listen to.

    They figured out years ago that you could theoretically reproduce any sound using the fast fourier transform in sound synthesis. Theoretically it's possible. But it's a long long way away from being realised and used in a practical context.

    my point is that this technology has in theory been around for a long time, but an actual practical application seems like it's a long way off. even if i can listen to bill clinton's speech in spanish (which i can according to the link in the OP).


  • #3
    cornbb
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    I think they use reverse FFTs judging by the smearing in the resynthesised vocals... I think this particular technology is more of a novel application of natural language grammars in computer science than it is an application of new music technology.

    It is very impressive though, for a new technology, although I don't know whether people will actually use it. It does highlight the power of the FFT and digital spectral processing, the OP is right in saying that these technologies are at the cutting edge of music technology. EQs with tens of thousands of bands are possible, its easy to change the gender of a vocalist with a single click, etc. There's a good article on spectral products for music production here.

    The really cutting edge stuff is still in the realm of academia of course - Csound, Pure Data and Max/MSP are all powerful technologies which will allow you to produce pretty much any sound imaginable although they can be a bitch to use.


  • #4
    jtsuited
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    cornbb wrote: »
    The really cutting edge stuff is still in the realm of academia of course - Csound, Pure Data and Max/MSP are all powerful technologies which will allow you to produce pretty much any sound imaginable although they can be a bitch to use.

    i have had the pleasure of briefly meeting barry vercoe (creator of csound) and the work he showed us he was doing on mpeg 1 layer 4 was the most incredible thing i have ever seen.

    it's all secret and whatnot but basically it really will change music recording and production forever. That's if it takes off. Which i presume it will even if it is in a few years time.


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