Reddit mentions: The best vocal jazz music

I always get a bit depressed when these posts come around again.

This stuff has been available for about 15 years. I used to work for Sensaura. We licensed to audio chip manufacturers. All of the problems mentioned in here (cross-talk cancellation, different shapes of pinnae etc for example) have been solved a long time ago. Our technology was in pretty much every PC soundcard that was not made by Creative. It was also in the original Xbox and nForce motherboards. Our later implementation was completely CPU-based; it was all done in the driver and would work on any AC97 chipset. We also had a software implementation for consoles called GameCODA.

Then we got bought by Creative and those patents have pretty much sat in their cupboard, along with the patents from Aureal. Microsoft is also to blame for the demise of 3D audio as when Vista came out, they changed the audio subsystem so that you couldn't access audio hardware (or a custom driver like ours) through DirectX.

So if you build yourself a time-machine, go back 10 years and buy a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard, all of your 3D audio dreams will come true. In my mind, it was the best soundcard ever made and included Virtual Ear in the driver, which let you tune the 3D audio to your own ear shape. We also had MacroFX, which simulated sounds very close to the head, ZoomFX, which simulated sounds of any size instead of just a point source, a version that would add full 3D (including vertical positioning) to a surround sound setup, and a whole bunch of other marvellous stuff.

As for everyone going on about cross-talk cancellation as if its a big new thing, here's a PDF of the Sensaura whitepaper on it from 1999. Just search for stuff like Sensaura patents for the rest. There are loads of them, all now owned by Creative.

Edit 1 - fixed links and added whitepaper

Edit 2 - some more Sensaura info:
Sensaura was originally designed for music recordings. The company itself was born out of a research project at EMI's Central Research Laboratories (CRL); the same building where Alan Blumlein invented stereo and the CAT scanner was invented. We had a little museum near reception with the first CAT scanner prototype (built using a common lathe) and such things as King George's gold microphone.

Some of the first uses of Sensaura were on classical CDs and a couple of other albums (Milla Jovovich, Prefab Sprout and Frank Sinatra). These were all intended to be listened to via speakers, so the cross-talk cancellation was built into the recording. Also, classical music aficionados are amongst the most discerning of listeners, so the 3D and cross-talk cancellation was designed to be as transparent as possible. The cross-talk cancellation was especially good as it produced no noticeable phasing effects as you moved left<->right in front of the speakers.

After Aureal started to produce 3D audio for games, it was realised that the 3D music technology (which at that point was built into a rather cool blue multi-channel mixing console with a joystick in the middle of it) could be scaled down for games. A few years later and it really was in pretty much every piece of audio hardware that wasn't made by Creative. If you're interested, read up on Sensaura's Digital Ear. I'll try to find the rest of the Sensaura white papers as they're really interesting.

Edit 3:
Found this Concepts Guide from the web archive of our old GameCODA website which gives a really good overview of all of the Sensaura gaming features. And just think...this was standard on PC games 10 years ago.

Edit 4:
I dug out the white papers I could find and uploaded them (they're really good). The ones that I know are missing are the ones about ZoomFX (volumetric sounds) and Multidrive (3D audio through multiple speakers):

• An introduction to sound and hearing
  
• Digital Ear Technology
  
• MacroFX algorithms
  
• XTC crosstalk cancellation
  
• Transaural acoustic crosstalk cancellation
  
• EnvironmentFX Audio Environment Modelling
  
  I did find a PDF of a presentation on implementing ZoomFX.
  Also, as an example of how common place this all was:
  Interactive 3D Audio Rendering Guidelines Level 2.0 by the 3D Working Group of the Interactive Audio Special Interest Group, September 1999.
  
  Edit 5: One last thing for you. I've uploaded CodaPlayer3D. It came with our GameCODA SDK. It just lets you load in a mono sound and move it around in 3D with various other parameters like reverbs and so on. It's got a bug in it that won't let you switch the output mode (or the HRTF mode), so I'm not sure if it's stuck in speaker mode or headphone mode. Also, the effect is much better with reverb switched on, but is also not as good as if you had a Santa Cruz card and had tuned the output to your own ear. Also, one of the big problems with selling 3D audio to people is that it doesn't impress many people without being able to switch between stereo and 3D. I think this is because 3D is our natural way of to hear things and the brain settles into it really easily (like when you watch a 3D film and forget that it's 3D after 5 minutes).

I remember loving Nina Simone's music since I was able to pick what I wanted to listen to. I would sing 'Sinnerman' at the top of my lungs in the car, seduce paramours with my rendition of 'I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl', imagine my revenge to 'Pirate Jenny', cheered up to 'Feelin' Good', shared the outrage of 'Strange Fruit' and shed many a tear to 'Ne Me Quitte Pas'. Hell just thinking about 'Ne Me Quitte Pas' is enough dampen my eyes. I remember with elation when it was quietly announced that she would do one last American tour. I saved my pennies for months! By the time I could purchase the tickets they were already sold out in NYC. I cast a wider net to find the show in Philadelphia still had tickets. I bought three and drug two dear friends along that had no idea why it was such a big deal. I drove, we ate pizza, concert was beyond words, I hit a deer on the highway on the way back (she lived!). In the end I was just so very glad and grateful that I, decidedly younger than most of her audience, managed to see her perform. When she passed away, it was like a light went out. I was in mourning for longer than I am comfortable admitting here.

Ne Me Quitte Pas - Nina Simone

Thanks for the music. Seriously, thank you I have never shared that with anyone and now Reddit has it.

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|name|Zara McFarlane|
|about artist|Zara McFarlane’s debut album, 2011’s Until Tomorrow, came garlanded with rave reviews and a MOBO award nomination, and heralded a major new talent in the world of British jazz. The follow-up, also recorded for Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings, is a more ambitious collection that draws from many more influences: from the deep spiritual jazz of Pharoah Sanders to dub and reggae. “With the first album,” says Zara, “I was trying to create a cohesive sound, one that used the same line up and the same instrumentation throughout. ([more on last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Zara McFarlane))|
|album|If You Knew Her, released Feb 2014|
|track|Open Heart|
|images|album image, artist image|
|links|allmusic, discogs, official homepage, myspace, facebook, mp3 on amazon, CD on amazon|
|tags|jazz, soul|
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One of the best albums by the incomparable Nina Simone. Graph don't lie! https://camelcamelcamel.com/Pastel-Blues-NINA-SIMONE/product/B007UUQJLM?active=price_amazon&context=home_alerts

Apparently this was filmed in 2005 at the Montreal Jazz Festival and released as a DVD titled "Live in Montreal"

Unfortunately, my book is also a CD. But I still love the title.

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I'm your guy if you want to know more about the Brothers. Here are some other shows that have been posted to /r/listentoconcerts. You have to watch this excerpt from a documentary called Tom Dowd & The Language of Music. If I'm being realistic, this is my most viewed video on Youtube. Then you also need to make time for the Muscle Shoals documentary.

Tom Dowd and the Language of Music