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2 unusual facts about Digital audio


Digital audio

Commercial digital recording was pioneered in Japan by NHK and Nippon Columbia, also known as Denon, in the 1960s.

This technique, known as "channel coding", is essential for broadcast or recorded digital systems to maintain bit accuracy.


Aviom

Headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Aviom produces distributed audio networking gear which uses a proprietary digital audio transport system called A-Net, based on the physical layer of Ethernet and carried over Category 5 cables terminated with 8P8C connectors.

Final Scratch

Final Scratch is a DJ tool created by the Dutch company N2IT with input from Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman) and John Acquaviva that allows manipulation and playback of digital audio sources using traditional vinyl and turntables.

Netlabel

A netlabel (also online label, web label, digi label, MP3 label or download label) is a record label that distributes its music through digital audio formats (such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, or WAV) over the Internet.

Structured Audio Orchestra Language

Structured Audio Orchestra Language (SAOL) is an imperative, MUSIC-N programming language designed for describing virtual instruments, processing digital audio, and applying sound effects.


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Akai MPC60

In 1979, Roger Linn produced the world's first drum machine to use digital audio samples as the sound source, the Linn LM-1.

Audio Alchemy

It produced many lines of relatively affordable audio products, including CD players, transports, digital audio processors, and amplifiers.

Begbroke

Solid State Logic, the world's largest manufacturer of professional analogue and digital audio consoles for music, broadcast, post production and film, is headquartered at Begbroke.

Data and object Carousel

The standard format for a carousel is defined in the Digital Storage Media Command and Control (DSM-CC) toolkit in ISO/IEC 13818-6 and is part of the Digital Audio Video Council (DAVIC) DVB standard for digital video broadcasting.

DMP Digital Music Products

DMP was one of the few labels to release commercial DAT recordings, has been at the forefront of introducing numerous digital recording technologies, and has been a pioneer in the SACD digital audio format.

DSBC

Digital Satellite Broadcasting Corporation - one of four companies that was bidding for Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service, or SDARS, licenses in the United States.

Durabrand

Durabrand does have some "company rivals," despite the low prices, their products are matched up between other in-house brands like Wal-Mart's iLo brand (considered as an upmarket brand, offers MP3 digital audio players and plasma video displays), Target's TruTech brand; and to an extent, K-Mart's former Curtis Mathes/White-Westinghouse (in the mid-to-late 1990s) now Home Essentials brand.

George Korngold

In 1979, he produced one of the first digital audio recordings, for Chalfont Records; it was the first commercial release of his father's music for Kings Row, Charles Gerhardt conducting.

Hui

HUI MIDI mapping protocol, an interface between digital audio workstations and connected hardware controllers

Logitech Media Server

Logitech Media Server (formerly SlimServer, SqueezeCenter and Squeezebox Server) is a streaming audio server supported by Logitech (formerly Slim Devices), developed in particular to support their Squeezebox range of digital audio receivers.

Mobile digital media player

British scientist Kane Kramer designed one of the earliest digital audio players, which he called the IXI.

Optical recording

Toshi Doi and Kees Schouhamer Immink created the digital technologies that turned the analog Laserdisc into a high-density low-cost digital audio disc.

S-VHS

In 1991 Alesis introduced ADAT, an eight-track digital audio recording system that used S-VHS cassettes.

Samsung YEPP

The YP-U1 is a flash-memory digital audio player that can play MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, ASF and WAV format files, and record WAV files using the built-in microphone.

The New Rascals

In 2008, the group performed on a live video recording, New Rascals Reloaded with Eddie Brigati, and on a digital audio recording titled New Rascals LEGENDS, covering songs of the Young Rascals (also known simply as the Rascals), such as Groovin' and Good Lovin'.

The Rub

Four songs by The Rub were also included on one of the first MPEG digital/audio CDs, Browser Barbarians released by DMR Diversions (Ridgecrest, California).

Tzang Merwyn Tong

The film sees him working with a student crew from the school of Digital Audio Video Production, featuring music by Amanda Ling (formerly of Electrico).