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Re: Pixelgrabber equivalent for Music(MIDI/MP3)

Interesting question. "It depends on what you want to do" is the all-too-typical answer. There are books on waveform analysis ( here's a free online one http://www.dspguide.com/ ), and books on composing music, and books on audio technology.

A single book covering everything would probably be too large to hold or cover too little, and really some of the topics *barely* touch one another. You'll notice a single waveform analysis/DSP book is a huge tome, typically- by the way, I do think that is the type of book you are looking for.

Doing a quick Google search, I found this nice little page full of Computer Music-related links : http://www.softsynth.com/musiclinks.html#Resources which include all of the things the original poster wanted to know about ( file formats and such ) and much more. A nice stack of cross-platform and Java links are included.

If you know or are learning Objective-C ( yea, I know, I shouldn't even mention it ) and want to actually *create* music, you'll want to look into the MusicKit, http://musickit.sourceforge.net/
I recommend it highly. Smart and creative people have used this kit for years and years to make some truly astounding music.

oh! I almost forgot the clear and obvious Computer Music resource. What's that?
Why, it's _The Computer Music Journal_, of course :
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Computer-Music-Journal/
http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=4&tid=15

That first link ( to the actual CMJ ) has decent-looking "Programmer's Reference" and "Research Tools" links which provide much useful information.

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 02:11 PM, email@hidden wrote:

Actually ,this hits on an area of interest of mine.
There is no shortage of nifty books for doing cool graphics programming. The graphics gems series and such.

What I haven't really seen is an equivalent set of stuff on digital audio processing theory/algos.
Any pointers to resources on this would be really great.

On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 12:58 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:

John Park <email@hidden> wrote:

If I cannot retrieve a note value from a MIDI/MP3 file, what values can
I get?

What values do you want?


I am trying to do music/audio analysis of MIDI/MP3 files.

I can imagine dozens of different "music/audio analysis" operations on both
MIDI and MP3 files. Exactly what analysis are you doing, using what kind
of data?
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