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Description:
The presence of Moore’s law in today's computer world has given incredible diversity to the ways of how sound is created and processed or Sound Synthesis Mechanisms. Oscar Caraballo will present a chronology of all the sound synthesis mechanism created from instruments such as: Hardware Analog Modular Systems [ Moog, Arp ], Hardware Digital Synthesizers [ Yamaha DX7,Roland D50, Access Virus ], Software Digital Modular Systems [ Reaktor, Kyma ], Digital Software Synthesizers [ Omnisphere ]. In the sound synthesis world these mechanisms are called: Analog Subtractive synthesis, Frequency Modulation, Linear Arithmetic, Advance Integration, Digital Sampling, Physical Modeling, Articulative Synthesis, Granular synthesis, and Spectral Synthesis.
About the Speaker:
Oscar Caraballo is a Physicist who has worked as a Senior Acoustics Engineer at Audience, in Silicon Valley, on a technology which reversed engineering the human hearing. This technology has applications in voice processors for noise suppression, acoustic echo cancellation and speech recognition which has been word wide deployed in mobile devices such as the Samsung Galaxy.
Oscar has spent most of his life involved with synthesizers and sound synthesis. He started designing sounds on Analog Modular Systems and then worked on the different generations of digital hardware synthesizers as well as software synthesizers.
On the musical side Oscar is a classical trained pianist and composer who has released four albums. One of them: Yesterday Is Tomorrow tribute to Yes got international recognition and worldwide sales.
Oscar is also the President and Founder of the Sound Synthesis Club - A community for Scientists and Artists who has members of the caliber of Dave Rossum, chief scientist of Emu System, Michel Geiss former Jean Michel Jarre’s associated ,Alex Hartmann designer of the Neuron and Origin synthesizers; and international artist such as: Michel Huygen - Neuronium, Larry Fast - Peter Gabriel, and former Tangerine Member Michael Hoenig among others.
Oscar has been featured in the Symbolic Sound website for his use of the Kyma platform and Studio of the Month at Sweetwater sound.
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