[linux-audio-user] ATS release

[lee]

Wow, guess that settles it. Thanks all for the advice. I'll let you all 
know when the prototypes are rendered.

-lee

RTaylor wrote:
> On 2004-05-29 06:02:30 +0000 lee <lee at fallingforward.net> wrote:
> 
>> luis jure wrote:
>>
>>> hello list,
>>>
>>> (sorry for cross-postings)
>>>
>>> juan pampin has just announced the new "official" release of ATS.
>>>
>>> ATS is a spectral modeling system based on a sinusoidal plus 
>>> critical-band
>>> noise decomposition. Psychoacoustic processing informs the system's
>>> sinusoidal tracking and noise modeling algorithms.
>>
>>
>> I'm doing a project and experimented with ATSH. It didn't do exactly 
>> what I was looking for but what I was looking for is kind of esoteric 
>> so I don't blame the program. Perhaps you can point me in some kind of 
>> direction or at least clarify some things since I feel that ATS 
>> probably comes the closest to what I'm looking for.
>>
>> I'd like to extract spectral information from a short sound recording 
>> and write it to a text file in the form of bin -> value for each 
>> frame. This data will eventually make it's way into a Maya plugin to 
>> be used as a function for a 3D object. I can't seem to find a program 
>> that will spit out this kind of FFT data as just a text file. Csound's 
>> pvanal gets real close but the format is binary.
>>
>> Anyway, the visualizations from ATSH looked the closest to what I'm 
>> looking for so I thought I'd ask for some advice.
> 
> 
>  OpenDX www.opendx.org My choice... You don't have to limit what you 
> visualize with it. This thing is just plain amazing. Matlab {amongst 
> others {Scilab} can do file conversions for you {take a look at h5 for 
> conversions... maybe Cactus if you really decide to get into it...}
> 
>  Mayavi {If you're into Python...}
> 
>  Grass {I've not used it in years... It was excellent in the late '9os 
> though and it looks like it's gotten "popular".}
> 
> {maybe vxl... It's a language for "computer vision" ....I'm just setting 
> it up. I'm not quite sure what functionality it might add to your system 
> {s}. ...It looks as though it's got potential though. There *is* a lot 
> of stuff here: 
> http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/vision.html {One of 
> my favorite web pages. :}} Don't blame me if you download it and it's 
> useless. It *seems* really similar to:
> 
> VTK/ITK
> http://public.kitware.com/VTK/
> http://www.kitware.com/case/vtkinuse.html
> 
> {Do take a look at what they're doing with some of their projects.}
> 
>  Oh... thanks for the hint about the above... I was at the page the 
> other night and decided I didn't have time to mess with it... after 
> reading a bit more it looks as though it could be excellent though....