Please be respectful of the publisher, and our authors, by not further distributing, or uploading these images elsewhere.

If you happen upon these images, find them interesting (or even useful) then please consider purchasing your own copy of the book(s) now in paperback and ebook.

Legalisms

Unless otherwise specified, the contents of the CD-ROM images are protected by the BSD license, and the reader may use the source code provided for any purpose as long as the following statement is prominently displayed:

This product includes code from Audio Anecdotes: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Digital Audio, edited by Ken Greenebaum and Ronen Barzel, published by A K Peters, Ltd.

The contents of these CD-ROM images are to be used at your own risk: Ken Greenebaum, Ronen Barzel, and A K Peters make no claim regarding the suitability of this material for any use.

Lastly

Also know that the installation scheme, which includes running a web-server to execute the demos, is likely not secure, nor a particularly viable approach in 2022, consequently please use these images to access the code, executables, and media.

That said I do welcome suggestions, and support regarding modernizing the code and installer, and always enjoy your feedback.

Matthijs Hollemans, fellow audio enthusiast and author (check out his recently published book: Code your own Synth Plug-Ins) kindly informed me that he didn’t receive the CDROM with his second printing of Audio Anecdotes Volume 2. This is frustrating since my contributors and I worked so hard to make the algorithms and concepts experiential, going so far as to make the code cross-compile on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

I have reached out, but not yet heard back from our new publisher, Taylor and Francis‘ CRC Press.

In the mean time I will try to provide CD-ROM images to download (look for a new posting soon), and will examine the state of the AudioAnecdotes GitHub repository.

Longer term I will try to rethink the online material as the CD-ROM as well as it’s web server approach is at best dated.

Please reach out if you, too, are missing the CD-ROM, or would like to help rethink how best to share and then present the code and media in the era of the eBook!

However there is news to belatedly announce!

AudioAnecdotes is finally available in more affordable Kindle, and PaperPack versions!

Please share with those who might find inspiration or a spark of joy in these pages.

All the best for the Holidays and New Year! Please be safe, I think we are in for a bumpy ride.

Grant visually explores decomposition, winding, motivations for use of the complex plane, and the inverse transformation (however was a little disappointed that they chose not to mention the original thermodynamic motivations).

I plan to share Grant’s videos with my 7 year old to lay the groundwork for new ways to examine the world.

I am also excited to explore manim, the author’s python based animation library used to create the graphics in this and other of his videos.

I am very disappointed to learn of the dissolution of Doppler Labs and the discontinuation of their Dubs passive hearing protectors and highly innovative active Here One bluetooth ear buds.

Doppler created a new product category for a consumer product designed to augment normal people’s hearing. To pull this off requires solving many audio engineering challenges including providing ultra low latencies, beam forming microphone arrays, active noise cancelation, etc.

They further successfully petitioned for legislation to dramatically open the hearing-aid market to over the counter device sales.

I am most disappointed by the loss of products that might have been.

There have been a number of article written about Doppler’s Fall, including a message Doppler posted to their customers.

It is perhaps telling that apparently acquisition talks stalled and there is no buyer for the company, products, employees, or IP.

My best wishes for future innovation from Doppler staff, hope they land well, and for Doppler customers who took a bet on the future and get to experience an imperfect early whisper.

NPR’s skunk bear has a great video both demonstrating and explaining Schlieman flow visualization of actual sound waves as captured by high speed camera. You can see the tremendous compression caused by a stack of books falling or the much weaker wave caused by a hand clap.

Over the years many fascinating Makers have either stopped returning or have dumbed down what they have brought. I am somewhat at fault myself having not hosted a booth for a second (third?) year after bringing one audio related interaction or another for the preceding three.

Complaints aside I did come away with a lot of new ideas, easily making the entry fee a great value even if I wasn’t able to see the entire show having spent half the day enjoying the Faire through my daugter’s fresh eyes.

Next postings will be about interesting  people, companies, products or discoveries from Maker Faire 2016.

Considering the mi.1 produced by quicco sound, a Japanese startup seems to be composed of old hands from Roland and Yamaha who introduced the mi.1 as their first product in a successful IndieGoGo campaign a while back. Like the size and self powered operation but am concerned about latency (the mi.1 FAQ states an additional 8.4ms latency over wired MIDI; not insignificant (see Derek DiFilippo‘s Audio Anecdotes Vol 1 article on perceptual audio latency) especially when added to the base wired MIDI latency, latency of the synth app, and latency of the app/coreAudio audio output.

From the original current loop interface, through MIDI over Ethernet, to now wireless MIDI over Bluetooth, MIDI is the standard that refuses to go away!

What are your experiences with MIDI over Bluetooth?