European Commission Honors Home-Grown Tech Inventors

By W. David Gardner, TechWeb News
April 11, 2006 (12:56 PM EDT)
In an effort to boost recognition of European innovation, the European Commission (EC) and European Patent Office (EPO) announced the names of inventors to receive lifetime achievement awards including men who pioneered the microchip and the MP3 format.

mp3 Surround Technology and Music Free at all4mp3.com

mp3 Surround Technology and Music Free at all4mp3.com; Applications, Exclusive Tracks and Information Available for Download

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2006--The Technology division of Thomson (Euronext:18453)(NYSE:TMS), the global technology and creative services corporation, today announced that it is offering free mp3 Surround software and music on its website: www.all4mp3.com. Designed for musicians and aficionados of advanced audio technologies, all4mp3.com is a Web destination that features comprehensive information about mp3 Surround; a demo encoder for creating mp3 Surround tracks; an mp3 Surround player; the mp3 Stereo eXtended converter (mp3 SX) for upgrading mp3 files to Surround sound, and software development tools.

Thomson Announces Cubase 4 to Feature mp3 Surround

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Leading Media and Consumer Electronics Companies Embrace Thomson's Multi-Channel Distribution Technology

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cubase, the premiere music production software, is featuring mp3 Surround capabilities for the first time, it was announced today by global technology corporation and mp3 Surround licensor Thomson (Euronext: 18453) (NYSE: TMS - News). Cubase 4, from audio software leader Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, includes tools for encoding multi-channel content in mp3 Surround, the surround sound solution with the convenience of mp3. Steinberg joins eMusic, DivX, Sony Corporation and Samsung on the list of top-tier media and consumer electronics companies that have recently licensed mp3 Surround.

Fraunhofer IIS Introduces MP3 Surround Sound for Internet Radios

ERLANGEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At Midem in Cannes, France, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS is introducing a new mp3 surround streaming module that allows manufacturers to build web radios featuring true 5.1 surround sound. Visit booth R35.01 to learn more about mp3 surround and many more innovative technologies for the music business.

The History of mp3

Early 1970s: Prof. Dieter Seitzer of Erlangen-Nuremberg University in Germany begins wrestling with the problem of compressing music over phone lines. Initially refused research money to pursue the goal, he establishes a group of technicians and scientists interested in audio coding research to tackle the problem

1979: Prof. Seitzer's team develops a first digital signal processor capable of audio compression. During subsequent development, a student of Prof. Seitzer, Karlheinz Brandenburg, developed and enhanced basic principles for perceptual audio coding exploiting the hearing properties of the human ear as described in psychoacoustics. Under Seitzer's guidance, Brandenburg and the team continuously developed a number of coding algorithms.

Tutorial 10. A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE MIXER

There are a lot of great effects to be loaded into the Mixer (F9) and it would be almost impossible to explain them all, but let us take a look at some of them that are really helpful. It is a remarkable thing to mention that FL Studio has plenty of effects to work until the ends of time (or serenity), so you will never get bored of experimenting and having fun with them.

Legendary nightclubs

There are two US clubs that had simultaneously broken the barriers of race and sexual preference, two clubs that were to pass on into dance music legend - Chicago's Warehouse and New York's Paradise Garage. Up until then, and after, the norm was for black, hispanic, white, straight and gay to segregate themselves, but with the Warehouse, opened in 1977 and presided over by Frankie Knuckles and the Paradise Garage where Larry Levan spun, the emphasis was on the music. And the music was as varied as the clienteles - r'n'b based Black dance music and disco peppered with things as diverse as The Clash's 'Magnificent Seven'. For most people, these were the places that acted as breeding grounds for the music that eventually came to be known after the clubs - house and garage.