I'm just finishing a project in the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) that involved creating a couple of new Vamp plugins from machine-learning models for music audio. MERT Vamp Plugin: a feature extractor for MERT audio features Vamp Lossy Encoding Detector: detect whether music audio has previously been encoded via lossy compression A Vamp plugin… Continue reading MERT Vamp Plugin, and a Lossy Encoding Detector
Author: Chris Cannam
A new bit of software… and mugs!
A couple of curious projects have recently sprung new releases. Of a sort. Mugs The simpler, and sillier, one first: I've entered the mug trade! Or strictly speaking, our company (hitherto entirely software) has. Either way, you can now buy a mug with two of my drawings of cartoon giraffes playing musical instruments on it.… Continue reading A new bit of software… and mugs!
Three cameras from around 1960
Here's a proper miscellaneous topic: The contents of a box of cameras passed down through my family. Ilford Sportsman, Zeiss Ikon Colora, Agfa Super Silette L I thought of these as "granny's cameras" — my paternal grandmother was quite a keen photographer — but it turns out they came from a couple of different family… Continue reading Three cameras from around 1960
On picking up the cello again after 30 years
For most of the last 30 years I've had a cello sitting in a case in a corner of the flat, unplayed. I described myself as a lapsed cellist, former cellist, sort-of cello player when younger, someone who is just not really playing these days. Occasionally I would get the cello out and tune it.… Continue reading On picking up the cello again after 30 years
Performance improvements in Rubber Band Library
Today marks version 3.1 of the audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting library Rubber Band. This release focuses primarily on performance improvements. In version 3.0 we introduced a totally new, higher-quality processing engine, which I'll refer to as the R3 engine. The older one is still included, and I'll call that R2. Although the output of R3… Continue reading Performance improvements in Rubber Band Library
Rubber Band Library: a thrilling new release
Rubber Band is a software library I wrote a while ago for changing audio recordings, typically of music, by altering their speed or pitch independently of one another — often known as time-stretching and pitch-shifting. There's a new release out, version 3.0, and I think it's terrific and sounds great and I'm very proud of… Continue reading Rubber Band Library: a thrilling new release
The Breakfast Post 