Re: [microsound] beautiful compression

[".formatt" <formatt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

i guess is not exactly what you mean, but emulation low-bitrates it surely
can..  :)

+decimate  -> http://www.soundhack.com/

grtz,
peter

++ http://users.pandora.be/formatt ++
>   ..   Galen Elfert . [guelfert@xxxxxx] wrote :

> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know if there exists a plugin or similar piece of software
> which simulates the effects of lossy audio compression algorithms
> (poorly encoded mp3s, old real audio, etc.)?
> If so, I'd like to hear about it.
> If not, it occurs to me that such a piece of software would be a great
> project for the more DSP inclined. The effects of such compression are
> fast becoming familiar to the general computer using population,
> insinuating their way into the public subconscience, or  something like
> that, and what with the general popularity of the "aesthetics of
> failure" I think such a plugin could be hugely popular. Maybe the next
> big trendy vocal processor...
> 
> Wait a minute. Did I just see something like that in an ad the other
> day?
> 
> Well, here's expecting you're all way ahead of me,
> 
> Galen Elfert
> ------------------------
> CalmSea
> 
> P.S. Obviously one could create the effect by "simply" encoding the
> audio and recording/decoding that, but although that might have a
> certain cachet, it's much less tweakable and much more laborious.
> 
> 

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