Tiny music files almost as good as MP3 ones

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It's a physical modeling instrument. They have been around for a decade at least in the synthesiser world. If you want to play with them, google "VST physical modeling" and get yourself a VST plugin host.

The problem with them as playable instruments is that the only practical way to get them as expressive as real instruments is to use a real instrument as a controller. Sheet music isn't nearly expressive enough unless you also encode the entire Western performance tradition into the player also. And there is no way to extract this information from a real performance - at this point we can barely extract PITCH accurately, let alone fine details of performance.

I noticed that they didn't say how big the PLAYER was. And they especially didn't say how big the player will be by the time they encode all traditional instruments (from all around the world), all modern instruments (including homemade ones), all the effects used in modern studios (including the custom or proprietary ones), every synthesizer sound anyone has ever programmed, every synthesizer sound anyone is going to use NEXT year, either every singer who has ever lived, or a singer good enough to imitate them all, and then there's the musicians who include things like crowd noises, machines, shortwave radios, animal noises, signals from radio telescopes, etc.

But for a large portion of modern music, there's an even simpler encoding scheme that is gigantically smaller yet - "www.rhapsody.com" plus the artist and title (not more than a couple hundred bytes total). No, this isn't an ad, it's just pointing out that moving the database from the song to the player isn't really compressing anything.

Posted by: Spitduck   Posted on: 10/09/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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