News tagged with sound synthesis


Researchers bring noise to virtual worlds

Researchers bring noise to virtual worlds

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists have developed a method to synthesize the sounds of cymbals, falling garbage cans and lids, and plastic water-cooler bottles and recycling bins.


Making realistic sounds for computer animation

Making realistic sounds for computer animation (w/Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Splash, splatter, babble, sploosh, drip, drop, bloop and ploop!





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Ultra-flat loudspeakers with powerful sound reproduction

Ultra-flat loudspeakers with powerful sound reproduction

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bigger speakers, bigger sound - this is the music lover’s creed. Flat panel loudspeakers offer an alternative to those who would rather not or cannot clutter up their homes with speakers. ...


The Beatles Return to Mono

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

From the White Album to Yellow Submarine modern releases of the Beatles present their music in stereo sound. But this Christmas, hard-core Beatles fans will eagerly unwrap "The Beatles in Mono," an 11-CD box set designed ...


New activity found for a potential anti-cancer agent

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pateamine A (PatA), a natural product first isolated from marine sponges, has attracted considerable attention as a potential anti-cancer agent, and now a new activity has been found for it, which may reveal yet another anti-cancer ...


Protein Factory of Living Cells

A new process for making much-sought iron nanospheres

Chemistry /

created Feb 19, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Using a process that creates bubbles as hot as the surface of the sun, chemists are reporting development of a new method for making hollow hematite (iron oxide) nanospheres. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's ...


Novel technique changes lymph node biopsy, reduces radiaiton exposure

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Information obtained from a new application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in gold to breast cancer patients.


Music file compressed 1,000 times smaller than mp3

Technology / Software

created Apr 01, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (57) | comments 10

Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file. The music, a 20-second clarinet solo, is encoded in less than a single kilobyte, and ...


The Multimedia Dome

The Multimedia Dome: Look, Listen and be Amazed

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 01, 2006 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Making its first public appearance at the IFA international consumer electronics fair in Berlin, the Multimedia Dome is the first digital dome theater to feature natural spatial sound: it envelops visitors ...


Researcher 'Shows the Voice' in Swallowing Disorders

Researcher 'Shows the Voice' in Swallowing Disorders

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using his background in aerospace engineering and signal processing, a UC researcher is finding new ways to help physicians listen to their patients: by teaching them to look at the signal, ...


DISSCO makes 'music' for Argonne, UIUC researchers

Other Sciences /

created Jun 21, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A mathematician and a musician have teamed up to create a new computer program that both composes music and creates the instrumentation to play it. The software is available for free from SourceForge.net.


Auditory illusion: How our brains can fill in the gaps to create continuous sound

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It is relatively common for listeners to "hear" sounds that are not really there. In fact, it is the brain's ability to reconstruct fragmented sounds that allows us to successfully carry on a conversation in a noisy room. ...



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