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Researchers Cram 20-Second Clarinet Solo into Sub-Kilobyte FileA quest by researchers at the University of Rochester resulted in a 20-second clarinet solo being compressed into less than a single kilobyte of data -- nearly 1,000 times smaller than a standard MP3 representing the same audio.
[blog.wired.com...]
They're only talking about an acoustic recording in this model - "Humans can manipulate their tongue, breath, and fingers only so fast, so in theory we shouldn't really have to measure the music many thousands of times a second like we do on a CD."
So capturing any electronic effects - echo, delay, flanging, whatever, would not be possible. Also, a single clarinet is a relatively simple waveform - as is any one-note-at-a-time instrument. Irt also doesn't create notes with a complex attack signature. But at least it's not as simple a wave form as, say, a flute or triangle.
This codec is an interesting development - especially coming from one of the pre-eminent music schools in the US. It sounds like it's related to physical modelling synthesis, first introduced by Yamaha in 1994.
a single clarinet is a relatively simple waveform - as is any one-note-at-a-time instrument.
1K might be ok for a ring tone.
are you suggesting that joe blow and benny goodman playing a single note sounds so similar that you can throw away all the extra information?
and not even BG could make his living room sound like carnegie hall...
Hey, what can I say? The 8-bit games are the most classic.
- radio stations want to do their own audio processing, especially dynamic range compression, so they do better starting with the least processed/most lossless source material.
