Boldly going where no Predator film has gone before, Predator: Badlands flips the franchise script, putting the Predator (aka Yautja) front and center. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, the same visionary ...

Have you noticed that guitars are back? I’m being a little facetious, but rock and even punk has has been steadily climbing its way back to the mainstream and we felt that more this year than we have ...

Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider met as students at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf in the late 1960s. They formed Kraftwerk in 1970; the name is the German word for “power plant.” After ...

Abstract: This paper introduces V2Coder, a non-autoregressive vocoder based on hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs). The hierarchical VAE with hierarchically extended prior and approximate ...

Abstract: We propose a new algorithm for time stretching music signals based on the theory of nonstationary Gabor frames (NSGFs). The algorithm extends the techniques of the classical phase vocoder ...

This ranking of the 21 greatest violin concertos of all time aims to capture the breadth and brilliance of the genre. Some choices are obvious mainstays: Brahms’s noble and muscular work, Bartók’s ...

For such an appraisal, we recommend that you have your instrument examined by a reliable violin dealer in your area. Although we are not allowed to recommend a particular appraiser, we suggest you ...

This project develops tools for interfacing with Advanced Multiband Excitation (AMBE) hardware vocoder chips developed by Digital Voice Systems, Inc. (DVSI). The proprietary AMBE technology is used in ...

Unofficial PyTorch implementation of Vocos by Hubert Siuzdak. Vocos is a fast neural vocoder designed to synthesize audio waveforms from acoustic features. Trained using a Generative Adversarial ...

Countrified with violin and slide guitars, the band’s steady line is occasionally broken by surprising moments like his falsetto, which we first hear on ‘Room to Breathe’. Neither a standout nor a ...