Building SoundSpotter from source on OSX and Windows
A short, practical walk-through for checking out the mp7c tree and building the SoundSpotter external for Max/MSP and PureData.
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The quiet craft of sound design in online entertainment
A guest note on how audio matching and careful sound design shape the feel of modern interactive and online entertainment platforms.
Read more »From SoundSpotter to audioDB: scaling similarity search
SoundSpotter matches against a corpus you hold in memory. audioDB asks the next question: what if the corpus is enormous? The answer involves locality-sensitive hashing.
Read more »Driving SoundSpotter live in Max/MSP and PureData
A few practical notes on patching SoundSpotter into Max/MSP and PureData, and steering through similarity space on stage without fighting the object.
Read more »Acoustic lexemes and the TimbreScores
The same features that let SoundSpotter match audio can be drawn as a picture. The TimbreScores gallery turns timbre into a visible, self-similar score.
Read more »What SoundSpotter actually does: matching, not synthesis
SoundSpotter does not generate new sound. It listens to a target and retrieves the closest-matching grains from a corpus, in real time. Here is why that distinction matters.
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