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Expand Up @@ -19,8 +19,12 @@ MAIM uses real encoders to get the utmost accurate MP3 sound. However, it also h
turn the encoding process up to 11, or break it entirely. If an MP3 is a beautiful loaf of bread, MAIM lets you turn eat
it fresh with butter and honey... or make the baker watch as you turn it into a bread bowl

<img src="images/maimgui.png" alt="screenshot of full maim gui">

## The Encoder Controls

<img src="images/maimencoderpanel.png" alt="cropped screenshot of maim encoder panel">

This panel controls the encoder settings, to get the full gamut of realistic MP3 encoding sounds.

### Blade Encoder / Lame Encoder
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## Frequency Reassignment

After an MP3 encoder determines which frequencies should be compressed, the audio is converted to the frequency domain
for the actual compression. (The astute reader will note that this requires two transforms where one would do just
fine. The reasons for this are more political than mathematical. See Stephen Witt's excellent book *How Music Got Free*)
<img src="images/maimreassignment.png" alt="cropped screenshot of maim frequency reassignment panel">

After an MP3 encoder determines which frequencies should be compressed, the audio is converted to the frequency domain
for the actual compression. (The astute reader will note that this requires two transforms where one would do just
fine. The reasons for this are more political than mathematical. See Stephen Witt's excellent book *How Music Got Free*)

In this matrix, you can change which frequency gets mapped to each line: the columns correspond to the output lines,
and the rows correspond to the input lines. For instance, if you wanted the low frequency information to play across all
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## Spectral Effects

<img src="images/maimspectral.png" alt="cropped screenshot of maim spectral effects panel">

### Horizontal Shift

This slider shifts the frequencies up or down, rotating around the end.
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## Miscellanea

<img src="images/maimmisc.png" alt="cropped screenshot of maim miscellanea panel">

These oddball effects were discovered by fishing around in the code of the MP3 encoders and trying out different "bends".

The top effect, which comes from the aliasing "butterfly" step of MP3 encoding, plays with constructive or destructive
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## Sidebar

<img src="images/maimpost.png" alt="cropped screenshot of maim sidebar panel">

These are your standard tools for corralling audio effects:

### Drive
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