Signal Processing

The company behind the ubiquitous pitch correction technology, Auto-Tune, has announced the ATG-1 Floor Processor. In addition to keeping a guitar in perfect pitch, the unit also caters for instant alternate tunings, tone modeling and sonic experimentation.

Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have created an app they claim can detect sleep apnea with similar accuracy to available methods, potentially removing the need for expensive equipment and overnight hospital stays.

A new technique developed by University College, London is claimed to be capable of correcting corrupted or distorted data being transmitted so efficiently that it has effectively doubled the communication distance previously possible in fiber optic cables.

Paul Vo's Vo-96 Acoustic Synthesizer has launched on Kickstarter.

Gizmag reviews the Peavey AT-200 guitar featuring Auto-Tune technology.

Three new BOSS stomps featuring Roland's Multi-Dimensional Processing technology have been launched.

Peavey has announced the immediate availability of its AT-200 guitar featuring Auto-Tune for guitar technology from Antares.

A "passive optical diode" developed at Purdue University could make for faster and more secure information processing and more powerful supercomputers.

Antares Audio Technologies has announced the development of its Auto-Tune digital signal processing technology for electric guitar.

Sony has unveiled its DR-GA500 and DR-GA200 headsets designed to maximize spatial awareness in first person shooters without waking up the neighbors.

Physicists have discovered a way to use a gallium arsenide nanodevice as a signal processor at “terahertz” speeds that could help end the electron and wires bottleneck for optical communications and computing.

Scientists have created a laser that transmits data via dips to darkness, instead of via pulses of light.