Symbolic Sound Corporation
- Symbolic Sound Corporation
Symbolic Sound Corporation was founded by Carla Scaletti and Kurt J. Hebel in 1989 as a spinoff of the CERL Sound Group at the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Originally named "Kymatics", the company was incorporated as Symbolic Sound Corporation in March 1990. Symbolic Sound's products are being used in sound design for music, film, advertising, television, speech and hearing research, computer games, and other virtual environments.
Kyma, Symbolic Sound's main product, was one of the earliest commercially available examples of a graphical signal flow language for real time digital audio signal processing [cite journal | last = Moog | first = Robert | title = Platypus, Granules, Kyma, Daton, & the DSP56001 in Your Future | journal = Keyboard | volume = 13 | issue = 12 | date = December 1987 ] .
The company has developed and commercialized several audio processing and synthesis techniques, including real time "spectral analysis" and "additive resynthesis", "audio morphing" [cite journal | last = Shapiro | first = Eben | title = Making Magic --- Listen Closely: Thanks to special effects, movies have been given a whole new look | journal = [http://www.wsj.com Wall Street Journal] | volume = 1998 | issue = March 19 | pages = R.8 ] , "aggregate synthesis" [cite press release | title = Symbolic Sound Unveils New Family of Sound Synthesis and Processing Algorithms | publisher = Symbolic Sound Corporation | date = January 1, 2002 | url = http://www.symbolicsound.com/press-aggregateSynthesis.html ] , "granular synthesis", and "Tau synthesis" [cite press release | title = Symbolic Sound Corporation Announces Tau | publisher = [http://www.emusician.com Electronic Musician] | date = February 21, 2006 | url = http://emusician.com/emusician_xtra/symbolic_sound_tau_022106/ ] . They have also developed algorithms for partitioning a signal flow graph to run on multiple parallel processors in real time.
External links
* [http://www.symbolicsound.com Symbolic Sound Corporation]
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