SDIF^TM
Sound Description Interchange Format

The Sound Description Interchange Format (SDIF) is an established standard for the well-defined and extensible interchange of a variety of sound descriptions including spectral, sinusoidal, time-domain, and higher-level models. SDIF consists of a basic data format framework and an extensible set of standard sound descriptions. The SDIF standard has been created in collaboration by Ircam, CNMAT, and IUA-UPF.

Contents

• Standard Documents
  • SDIF Specification (HTML) (PDF)
  • Standard SDIF Description Types
• User Documentation
  • IRCAM SDIF Tools and Utilities
  • User Manual and API of the IRCAM SDIF library
  • SDIF Library Tutorial
• Developer Documentation
  • Internal documentation of the IRCAM SDIF library
• Interactive Documentation and FAQ
  • The freesoftware@ircam wiki contains user-driven documentation about SDIF and other Ircam Free Software
• Download (current version: 3.10.5 released 5.5.2006)
  • sourceforge project page
  • SDIF for Matlab
  • historical releases
  • Express route to the Download Page on the wiki

Mailing List

• Use the sympa web interface, or:

• To subscribe, send a mail to listserv@ircam.fr containing

  subscribe sdif <first name> <last name>

• To unsubscribe, send a mail to listserv@ircam.fr containing

  signoff sdif [e-mail address if different from your reply-address]

• Send messages to go to the list to sdif@ircam.fr.

Links

• ICMC 2000 article by Diemo Schwarz and Matt Wright describing recent SDIF extensions and applications.
• CNMAT SDIF Page
• CNMAT specification of standard frame and matrix types

Without Frames (HTML that is, not SDIF frames =-)

• SDIF Specification (temporarily removed)
• IRCAM SDIF Tools and Utilities
• User Manual of the IRCAM SDIF library
• API of the IRCAM SDIF library
• Internal documentation of the IRCAM SDIF library