Audio

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Formats

MP3

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 MP3 (MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a patented encoding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio streaming or storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on most digital audio players.

AAC

  • Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates.

Ogg

Container format.

Vorbis

FLAC

  • FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file. FLAC stands out as the fastest and most widely supported lossless audio codec, and the only one that at once is non-proprietary, is unencumbered by patents, has an open-source reference implementation, has a well documented format and API, and has several other independent implementations.

Opus

  • Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec. Opus is unmatched for interactive speech and music transmission over the Internet, but is also intended for storage and streaming applications. It is standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as RFC 6716 which incorporated technology from Skype's SILK codec and Xiph.Org's CELT codec.

Vinyl

Linux

  • Linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit consortium of libre software projects and artists, companies, institutions, organizations, and hardware vendors using Linux kernel-based systems and allied libre software for audio-related work, with an emphasis on professional tools for the music, production, recording, and broadcast industries.

OSS

ALSA

Pulseaudio

JACK

  • JACK is system for handling real-time, low latency audio (and MIDI). It runs on GNU/Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows (and can be ported to other POSIX-conformant platforms). It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as normal applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (ie. as a "plugin"). JACK also has support for distributing audio processing across a network, both fast & reliable LANs as well as slower, less reliable WANs.
  • ladish is a session management system for JACK applications on GNU/Linux. Its aim is to allow you to have many different audio programs running at once, to save their setup, close them down and then easily reload the setup at some other time. ladish doesn't deal with any kind of audio or MIDI data itself; it just runs programs, deals with saving/loading (arbitrary) data and connects JACK ports together. It can also be used to move entire sessions between computers, or post sessions on the Internet for download.

to sort

amixer -c 0 | pcregrep "control"

pacmd dump

play --show-progress -c 2 --null synth brownnoise \
   reverb bass 6 treble -3 echos 0.8 0.9 1000 0.3 1800 0.25 [1]

MP3 player

Software

Players

  • MPC (cccp still?)? -

to check;

MPD

ncmpcpp

mplayer

Larger GUI

Streaming

Production

Generative

Synth

Buzz

  • Buzz is the first ever "easy to use" free modular software based synthesizer. What this means is that the entire system is based on objects, which may be routed in a modular fashion, giving you the freedom to be as creative as you want. For example, if you wish to run 3 Physical Modelling synths and a Drum Machine through 2 seperate Stereo Delays, into a Mixer, through a Compressor and Parameteric EQ, and finally out to your speakers - no problem. Lay down your synths, connect the wires and you're done.

SuperCollider

  • SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.
  • Overtone is an open source audio environment being created to explore musical ideas from synthesis and sampling to instrument building, live-coding and collaborative jamming. We use the SuperCollider synth server as the audio engine, with Clojure being used to develop the APIs and the application. Synthesizers, effects, analyzers and musical generators can be programmed in Clojure.

Pure Data

Plugins

Tools

Score

DJing

Jamming

Speech synth

Binaural beats

Streaming

See also Music#Streaming

icecast, etc.

Speech recognition

Misc

Web Audio API

Web

Logging

Visualisation

Metronome

Synths

Drums

See also Drumming

Samples / looping

Sounds

MIDI

  • Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.

Hardware

move some to music?

see sound on sound, etc.

MP3

MIDI

Pedal

Synth

Microphones

Controllerism

Phreak

.

Sound system

Radio

Studio

Acoustics

  • The Effects of Large and Small Scale Turbulence on Sound Propagation in the Atmosphere

Styles

With interesting not-just-4-to-the-floor-or-straight-breaks rhythms.

idm, technoid, less so general glitch, brokenbeat, some minimal, future garage, footwork, complextro, breakcore, etc.

misc.

rave/dnb great book: all crews [rise up]

why last.fm technoid tag isn't mainly idm/industrial;

Sounds

few of my favourite

  • silver papers
  • bad track underground (in summer)
  • water (at night)
  • Flogsta scream
  • iceflow cracking

Web

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