Comments on: Speech of Sine Waves http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/speech-of-sine-waves TIM’S OBSESSION WITH VIBRATING AIR MOLECULES Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:47:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: tim http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/speech-of-sine-waves#comment-603 tim Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:47:23 +0000 http://substation.co.nz/blog/?p=504#comment-603 the kind of apps to search for are ones that do spectral analysis Apart from Kyma the best i have used is AudioSculpt, although you have to pay a yearly subscription to ircam to use it.. http://forumnet.ircam.fr/forum-studio.html?L=1 Metasynth http://uisoftware.com/MetaSynth SoundHack http://www.soundhack.com/ theres also a very good article discussing apps (mac & pc) that let you convert sound <> images http://emusician.com/software/say-with-pictures/ the kind of apps to search for are ones that do spectral analysis
Apart from Kyma the best i have used is AudioSculpt, although you have to pay a yearly subscription to ircam to use it..
http://forumnet.ircam.fr/forum-studio.html?L=1

Metasynth
http://uisoftware.com/MetaSynth

SoundHack
http://www.soundhack.com/

theres also a very good article discussing apps (mac & pc) that let you convert sound <> images
http://emusician.com/software/say-with-pictures/

]]> By: greg http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/speech-of-sine-waves#comment-601 greg Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:40:16 +0000 http://substation.co.nz/blog/?p=504#comment-601 very cool. i can imagine using this idea in a short film, where someone is trying to teach a robot to speak...or something like that. any idea of some programs outside of a kyma system that does this? very cool. i can imagine using this idea in a short film, where someone is trying to teach a robot to speak…or something like that.

any idea of some programs outside of a kyma system that does this?

]]> By: Carl http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/speech-of-sine-waves#comment-602 Carl Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:54:08 +0000 http://substation.co.nz/blog/?p=504#comment-602 Wow, that's fascinating. Shows just how easily people's perception depends on what they expect to hear - and re-enforces my belief in the importance of blind listening tests if you want to have any credibility in claims of audio quality perception. Funny, this also reminded me of my fundamentalist upbringing when 'backmasking' was all the rage. We were all warned of the terrors of rock music, because if you played certain songs backwards, Satanic messages could be heard. I remember being mildly skeptical at the time when listening to the so-called examples - surely if Satan wanted to encode hidden messages he'd want to be a bit clearer about it. Anyway, in light of this dramatic you-hear-what-you-want-to-hear demonstration it's even more obvious how these poor, deluded fools could find the Evil One's influence in amongst great music. I bet I could find "God sucks" in Handel's Messiah played backwards if I looked hard enough. Wow, that’s fascinating. Shows just how easily people’s perception depends on what they expect to hear – and re-enforces my belief in the importance of blind listening tests if you want to have any credibility in claims of audio quality perception.

Funny, this also reminded me of my fundamentalist upbringing when ‘backmasking’ was all the rage. We were all warned of the terrors of rock music, because if you played certain songs backwards, Satanic messages could be heard. I remember being mildly skeptical at the time when listening to the so-called examples – surely if Satan wanted to encode hidden messages he’d want to be a bit clearer about it. Anyway, in light of this dramatic you-hear-what-you-want-to-hear demonstration it’s even more obvious how these poor, deluded fools could find the Evil One’s influence in amongst great music. I bet I could find “God sucks” in Handel’s Messiah played backwards if I looked hard enough.

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