SDIF: Sound Description Interchange Format

Welcome to the home page for the SDIF standards effort. We look forward to
your feedback and participation.

SDIF Documents and Resources

  • ICMC2000 Analysis/Synthesis Comparison Session:
    Run everybody's analysis software on a common
    set of input sounds and see what you learn from comparing the resulting
    SDIF files.

  • Two ICMC 2000 papers:

    An XML-based SDIF Stream Relationships Language     and

    Extensions and Applications of
    the SDIF Sound Description Interchange Format

  • 107th AES Convention Paper by Matthew
    Wright, Amar Chaudhary, Adrian Freed, Sami Khoury, and David Wessel

  • Two ICMC99 papers: Supporting SDIF
    in the Max/MSP Environment     and Cross-CodingSDIF into MPEG-4
    Structured Audio

  • ICMC 98 SDIF Paper by Matthew Wright,
    Amar Chaudhary, Adrian Freed, Xavier Rodet, Xavier Serra, Dominique Virolle,
    and David Wessel.