Re: SAOL status?

From: Brian Whitman (bwhitman@WPI.EDU)
Date: Thu Oct 01 1998 - 12:37:34 EDT


International Computer Music Conference
at University of Michigan

http://www.music.umich.edu/icmc98/

hope this helps,
brian

On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Koen Dejonghe wrote:

>
> Where and what is this ICMC ? Can anything be found on the web ? I
> looked with Yahoo and all it came up with was:
> International Christian Media Commission
> International Cryogenic Materials Conference 1999
> Idaho Consolidated Metals Corp
> Not very enlightening I'm afraid...
>
>
> ---Eric Scheirer <eds@media.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Curtin, Steven D (Steven) wrote:
> >
> > > Eric, what is the status of the finalization of SAOL? I'd heard
> that
> > > October was the month that the spec would "freeze". What are the
> important
> > > dates after that? Hopefully once the spec is stable people will
> start
> > > developing the hardware and real-time engines needed for it to
> propagate.
> > > Thanks for all your work on SAOL. I'm hoping that it will start
> to catch
> > > on soon.
> >
> > There is an MPEG meeting Oct 11-16th. This is the last chance
> > for anyone to make any changes to the specification. There
> > will be an editing period after this to incorporate agreed-
> > upon changes (typically 3 weeks for the text and 6 weeks for
> > the software). At this point the specification is frozen
> > and goes out to the various National Bodies (ANSI in the
> > USA, for example) for voting.
> >
> > So indeed, the specification of SAOL and the rest of the MPEG-4
> > Structured Audio tools (and MPEG-4 as a whole) is completely
> > final by about the 1st of November, and the 'saolc' reference
> > software soon after that.
> >
> > I'm giving a talk on SAOL at ICMC this weekend, by the way --
> > hope to see some of you there.
> >
> > Best to all,
> >
> > -- Eric
> >
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