Mathworks MATLAB 6.1

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SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

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OVERALL OPINION

Surprising to find this software more usually known thsards and other scientists! This is a software gnraliste calculation, which excels in the matrix calculations, and visualization tools annexes (2D, 3D, animation) have to win face gently in workstations UNIX, previously the only ones capable of running applications trs-hungry CPU. Then came the troublemaker in Windows, which by its ease of installation and ACCS took precedence over small small its glorious (but dry) year.
So it is not in either a music software, but Obviously, many applications of research (or at least technical trs) signal processing (in fine music) can be d envelope on this platform.
Note that the latest version is the current numro 7.

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The note could be either 0 or 10 depending on the use ... but I doubt standard for a musician, it is of any help ... Say 5 to average, but that did not make much sense!

In fact, it is not given ... Allow at least 2000 euros the basic version with no module supplmentaire!

Installation aiseds we really use a code - a few schools or universities are available PLP code -. According to the codes, it has some ACCS toolboxes and not others.
No configuration to do, everything is IMMEDIATE. As for the manual, it is clear trs with DMOS, the tutorials, support command line or with F1, ...

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

I used Matlab on many items DIFFERENT, what emerges is that demand for computing power, especially when you do anything. Matlab is optimized for the matrix calculation, a big point for scientific use. External Libraries used are the best out there - such as FFTW to calculate Fourier transform - so good. Trs's good.
Ngatif point, the interface in Java that train alone ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for more than three years, and will not s'arrter ... but to work.
I like the ease of programming and see the feedback, but the interface in Java rpulse me ... To do with ...
In its field, Matlab is a little lonely, it's almost a monopoly, Mathematica is part of the work of Matlab, MatCAD too, but none did everything that Matlab. The price is trs trs lev especially need to buy every toolbox you need, and made a dirty addition. This is why even the beasts do not achtent in full, and that universities achtent the basic version for all and a few licenses for some positions for some toolboxes.
Use, rutiliser ...

Problem-free installation.
Ets it also possible to easily add tools supplmenatires Toolbox calls. Some toolbox are free and others pay.
-The documentation is exemplary, on the one hand you can have a CASC easily using the console by typing HELP + the name of the function that interests us, it is also possible to help by running accsa doc command. Finally Matlab ets accompanied by several documents in pdf.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

On-machine resources, depending on the calculations you are going to start. Some other calculations are performed much less rapidly (a neural network learning can take weeks).
I use this software to work on powerful machines at home and on a athlon 1.8 with 1024 RAM.
-The performance of matlab is excellent. You can do everything! It is possible to create these proportions according to the algorithms programming language matlab file (. M). This language is very intuitive programmtion. The advantage over some of matlab certaisn a language lies in the fact that many are prprogramm function (the number of pre-programmed function will depend on the toolbox install. Matlab but does not make processing time r el (see simulink can be).

OVERALL OPINION

- I use it for over 3 years. Initially I used to do signal processing: Fourier transform, filtering, processing of sound and image, sound synthesis, time-frequency (STFT, Wigner Ville etc). Currently I use it primarily for telecom signal processing, statistics, statistical learning (SVM, ANN, Kohonen Map) and blind source sparation (ICA / BSS). I also attempted queqlues music on this program. This is possible thanks to the function of import / export import export audio and MIDI (MIDI Toolbox Free was first download)
- The advantages of Matlab are many: easy programming, pre-programmed functions VERY Evolus, easy to integrate new features. At the level of disadvantage include difficulty carrying a stand alone program in matlab. Matlab is often used in a research phase. If the results are entered into, a port in C, C + + or Java is required (which requires any reprogramming). Note that Matlab provides a pseudo exports in C. However, the exports in C does not allow the creation of stand-alone application, to run the programs Matlab Component C libraries are needed.
The quality-price ratio is hard to judge. On the one hand the application is the ultimate in digital processing, on the other hand the price is excessive lev. I put 10 because I consider the possibilities and not primarily the price. Note that there are application competitor as Octave or Scilab.