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New Tiny Music Files Nearly As Good As MP3
By Steve West: 2008-04-03 23:27:29
Who knew that we needed to improve MIDI? As a practical format I found the use of MIDI on Geocities home pages in the 90s to be far more exposure than necessary. But things can be improved. Professor Mark Bocko, department chair for electrical and computer engineering at the University of Rochester, has a better way to do sound. In particular a solo clarinet.
Bocko and his doctoral students, Xiaoxiao Dong and Mark Sterling, have come up with a way to synthesize the movements of a musician to recreate the sound of a clarinet. The file ends up being less than 1 kilobyte, and is based on an analysis of how the instrument is played. Rather than the on/off rule of MIDI, the Bocko system listens to the solo and then takes into account how the pitch changes are achieved. Essentially the program plays the clarinet like a real person, or pretty damn close. Right now it’s only clarinet, but with enough power Bocko’s program could simulate a full band. As a musician myself I see the potential this holds in perhaps composing a song, but the real recording of music will continue to be superior. But I’d certainly be willing to give a program a try that can evoke some of the feeling that playing music brings. Before I bring a song to others to play I can get a sense of how a group will sound together. The file, which is compressed 1,000 times more than an MP3, just doesn’t have the richness of tone that the real deal does. That fact alone turns me off from wanting to use the program to create music. RELATED: music, compression, midi, mp3
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