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MySong combines your singing voice with synth to make music

Researchers at Microsoft Labs and the University of Washington have demonstrated a program for automatically creating backing tracks for a singer's recorded voice. The software, called MySong, is aimed at novices who have little or no musical knowledge, ...

From THOMAS WILBURN, Ars Technica,  8 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Researchers squeeze 20-second clarinet solo into 1KB file

Despite being derided for its lack of resolution and flexibility, no real contender for MIDI's throne has appeared in its 25-year history. Still, Professor Mark Bocko thinks he might have found a superior approach—as long as you like solo clarinet. The ...

From THOMAS WILBURN, Ars Technica,  3 Apr 2008

Sounding the depths: a review of SONAR 7 Studio Edition

Cakewalk's Sonar 7 Studio Edition is a multitrack digital audio workstation (DAW)—a sort of virtual studio that can not only record audio and do MIDI sequencing, but can also mix and master tracks using an assortment of virtual signal processors, ...

From THOMAS WILBURN, Ars Technica,  4 Mar 2008

Fans of open access not optimistic on 700MHz auction results

Meeting in a panel for journalists and Senate staffers in Washington DC, open network advocates expressed their apprehension in the days leading up to the completion of the FCC's broadcast spectrum auction. That auction, which covers 62MHz of broadcast ...

From THOMAS WILBURN, Ars Technica,  14 Feb 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Ben Scott,  Comcast,  U.S. Congress,  Jerrold Nadler

The AudioFile: Analog-to-digital conversion

Thanks to cheap and powerful computing, opportunities for non-professionals to get involved in digital audio are widespread. The medium has become democratized, to some extent—what used to require an entire studio can now be done on the family PC, with ...

From THOMAS WILBURN, Ars Technica,  12 Nov 2007

AP sues US news aggregator for copyright infringement and trademark abuse

The Associated Press stated today that it has filed suit against Moreover Technologies, a news aggregation service owned by Verisign. AP says that the suit comes in the wake of a cease-and-desist letter sent to the service on September 11 and insists ...

From THOMAS WILBURN, Ars Technica,  11 Oct 2007
Related Topics: Google Inc.

The AudioFile: Understanding MP3 compression

Since its standardization in 1991, MP3 has gone from being a little-known portion of a video file format to the kind of ubiquity that most brands can only dream of having. It's both widespread, with small players flying off the shelves, and ...

From THOMAS WILBURN, Ars Technica,  4 Oct 2007

Barrier-bustin' Internet may lead to a music industry "middle class"

In one of the final sessions of the Future of Music Policy Summit, panelists discussed how the music industry is going through a process of "disintermediation," where fewer steps stand between artist and audience, thanks to social networking and ...

From THOMAS WILBURN, Ars Technica,  23 Sep 2007
Related Topics: Todd Rundgren

Online music distributors: song licensing a painful and expensive process

At a breakout session for the Future of Music Policy Summit in DC this week, online music distributors complained that licensing music for digital retail is still far too complicated, and blamed this complication for the paucity of online distribution ...

From THOMAS WILBURN, Ars Technica,  20 Sep 2007
Related Topics: Napster, Inc.

The AudioFile: basics of uncompressed digital audio

Thanks to the ability of digital audio to be perfectly copied, transmitted, and carried in small packages, we may be surrounded by more music and human-made audio programming than at any other time in our history. Reaching this point has required a ...

From THOMAS WILBURN, Ars Technica,  19 Sep 2007

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