Vince's Feedbag of Myopic Discordance: January 2007 Archives

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January 29, 2007

Surround mixing hip hop music...

...it kind of worked!

So last Friday, I had some fun with some of my cousin's material, remixing it into surround. Nothing big...mostly the draft stuff he had on his Pro Tools rig...

Lesson 1) Pro Tools...ARGH!

So while both of us can use Pro Tools, we're not really experts, so it took us a while to figure out how to get the surface controller mapping working...and once we did, we didn't quite get it working the way we wanted.

We ended up taking the easy way out...exporting out OMF files so that I can use them in Sonar. Frustrating.

Lesson 2) More LOOK, Less numbers.

So right now, the tablet looks something like this:

Which I've now realized is, while extremely functional, doesn't give a lot of information. Or, rather, it gives a lot of bleh information. We could move things around really well and we rather quickly came up with sound placement that he was very happy with, but visually he was hoping for something more "shape-y"

And I think I see what he wants. Gonna spend the next few days playing around with some visuals. I know what I want to get on the screen but sort of hard to describe. The image that I have in my mind is a sphere in Maya in vertex edit mode, so we're poking into the sphere or pinching and pulling out and stuff like that.

So yeah. More solid shape, less points.

And screw the angle/focus/db numbers too!

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January 26, 2007

CTIN 406 Week 3 Slides

Week 3 lecture slides can now be downloaded here in PDF form. Have fun!

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January 22, 2007

Testing out your ears

Hi folks,
After this past week's lecture's test tones, I wanted to forward along a few other interesting sites that allow you to test how your brain interacts with your ears, and general hearing perception range. Check these out if you get a chance:

Here's a fairly classic hearing test - the page also has the standard frequency response charts, showing how the perception of loudness varies with the sound's frequency.
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html

This one is more about musical perception/memory, and takes a bit of focus:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v300/IcerC/OnlineScreen.swf

A bunch of other interesting tests (one claims to tell you if you're "tone deaf", for instance):
http://tonometric.com/

And the student who's aggregating the results of these tests has some observations here:
http://jakemandell.com/

-Scott

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CTIN 406L week 2 notes and podcast

Hi folks,
Here are the course notes and lecture recording for our second week of class. (Note - I actually ran out of space for the recording, so it's only around the first hour of class. Hey, this is actually pertinent to the lab we did -- next time I'll run at a lower sampling rate and should be able to grab the whole thing.)

Download 1/19/07 Lecture Audio (MP3)
Download 1/19/07 Lecture Notes (PDF)

If you didn't already, please get the first week's assignment (1-2 page write up on audio for a game you've played recently) to Vince prior to this coming week's class - we'll likely start reducing grades after that.

I'll see you all (well, at least via webcam!) next week.
-Scott

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January 16, 2007

Week 1 Lecture Slides and Audio

Here are the slides from last week's lecture (PDF format). Right below is the lecture audio. Have fun!

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