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jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Thu May 24, 2012 7:01 pm

Is it just me or are there a disproportional amount of DSP programmers/developers from Finland ? Sometimes it feels like half of the DSP related articles i read are written by someone from Finland and they're just shy of 5.5 million people over there.

Could be the Baader Meinhof phenomenon (hey i just learned this on Wikipedia,it's when you start to notice something odd you see it everywhere). I'm thinking it could be a Nokia effect perhaps ? Or is it just an illusion ? Do they teach DSP at kindergarten ? Just curious.

antto · Post by **antto** » Thu May 24, 2012 7:03 pm

jup: i have had the same impression, even tho i haven't really read much books

Music Engineer · Post by **Music Engineer** » Thu May 24, 2012 7:09 pm

antto wrote:jup: i have had the same impression, even tho i haven't really read much books

i see finnish names more often on research papers than in books.

maybe this:

http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/

is rather big? dunno.

edit: and yes: i have the same impression

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Thu May 24, 2012 7:18 pm

Well they don't have much to do there apart from mobile phone throwing, rally driving and coding.

penguinfromdeep · Post by **penguinfromdeep** » Thu May 24, 2012 7:50 pm

It's true they have to spend quite a lot inside because it's so frikkin cold .. So they have some time to learn ins and outs of dsp magic.. But still there's not actually much in terms of audio software coming from Finland .. Only ANtti's synth comes to my mind now

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Thu May 24, 2012 8:15 pm

I doubt the cold has much to do with it. Sweden,Norway and Canada are pretty damn cold too most of the year.

ksandvik · Post by **ksandvik** » Thu May 24, 2012 8:17 pm

Sisu. Required when programming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu

Music Engineer · Post by **Music Engineer** » Thu May 24, 2012 8:22 pm

ksandvik wrote:Sisu. Required when programming.

especially in debugging sessions.

Richard_Synapse · Post by **Richard_Synapse** » Thu May 24, 2012 8:24 pm

Robin from www.rs-met.com wrote: i see finnish names more often on research papers than in books.

maybe this:

http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/

is rather big?

Yeah, I think this is the reason. There's not many places like that, where DSP for musical applications is pushed forward.

Richard

thevinn · Post by **thevinn** » Thu May 24, 2012 8:38 pm

Every distribution has a largest element.

mkdr · Post by **mkdr** » Thu May 24, 2012 8:42 pm

penguinfromdeep wrote:...there's not actually much in terms of audio software coming from Finland .. Only ANtti's synth comes to my mind now

Hi. I'm one Finnish dsp fan too

I've only released eq's(with saturation) and synth integration plugins(for DSI synths).. and done some basic dynamics and effects, but just for my own use. Guess i have to release them and my synth soon too.. To boost the Finnish image even more =)

Btw. I come from here: http://www.tut.fi/en/units/departments/ ... rocessing/

Ichad.c · Post by **Ichad.c** » Thu May 24, 2012 10:02 pm

Maybe it's the cold -> spend more time indoors - cracking the books, thinking etc. So I blame the African sun for my stupidity

Btw, it's winter here, about 12 degrees Celsius, and I'm freezing my butt off

mkdr · Post by **mkdr** » Thu May 24, 2012 10:05 pm

Ichad.c wrote:Maybe it's the cold -> spend more time indoors - cracking the books, thinking etc. So I blame the African sun for my stupidity

Btw, it's winter here, about 12 degrees Celsius, and I'm freezing my butt off

Btw, it's summer here, about 10 degrees Celsius

Ichad.c · Post by **Ichad.c** » Thu May 24, 2012 10:16 pm

mkdr wrote: Btw, it's summer here, about 10 degrees Celsius

Yeah, but indoors you have central heating or something similiar. Here you have bricks and a blanket.

Ichad.c · Post by **Ichad.c** » Thu May 24, 2012 10:26 pm

jupiter8 wrote: they're just shy of 5.5 million people over there.

Hell, we're 64 million and add 11 languages to that. And I'm the only DSP freak here

DSP and Finland (Suomi lovefest).