Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Kymatica Software: AlgoScore

AlgoScore is a graphical timeline software environment that produces audio output via CSound and runs on OS X and Leopard. For a while, I was looking to write software like this, so I'll be very interested in taking a look, it seems quite polished. For OS X, you do need X11, CsoundLib and JACK OSX. I'll be checking on the MacIntel/Leopard compatbility of the CSound prerequisites shortly.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Tristram Cary

Both MusicThing and CreateDigitalMusic reported on the passing of Tristram Cary this week. RIP. There is some video here of an Australian Documentary called What the Future Sounded Like.

Max 5


There's a lot of new stuff in Max 5 which came out this week. The upgrade including MSP and Jitter (they are now all bundled together) is $199. If you use ElectroTap's TapTools, there is a TapTools 3 beta version available and an upgrade will you get the production version when it is released.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

IXI tutorials for SuperCollider and PureData

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These IXI tutorials cover basic SuperCollider, PureData, using Python and a hacked DIY gamepad sensor interface.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Birdcall Synthesis Tutorial in PureData


Perhaps more than you ever wanted to know about birdcall synthesis (in PureData) can be found at Obiwannabe, home of a set of interesting tutorials on Practical Synthesis Sound Design by Andy Farnell. PureData (.pd) files and sound examples are part of the tutorials.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Noise Toy Kit - the loud objects

Electronic noise group the loud objects has this DIY Noise Toy Kit which is detailed in this Make blog including sound samples and a basic tutorial.

Electronics for Music Synthesis


Aaron Lanterman of Georgia Tech has posted a helpful syllabus and videos for his course Electronics for Music Synthesis. If you've been itching to know more about synthesis at the level of Op Amps and Oscillators, dig in! Aaron also maintains a DIY datasheet for DIY synth building.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Rodrigo Constanzo's Instruments


Rodrigo Constanzo has a great collection of instruments on this page — bent electronics, home built stuff, and even Max/MSP patches.


Thursday, April 10, 2008

Logic video tutorials



Here's the first Logic video tutorial in a series put together by David Earl of Pyramind, San Francisco. Click here to see his YouTube user page which has the complete set so far.


Though they cost about $40 each, MacProVideo also has some useful video tutorials you can buy as well. And of course, if you are starting out in Logic, check out Apple's site and the the Apple Pro Training books - I found the 2 volume Logic 7 books have a bit more information than the current Logic 8 book.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Interview with Monome



Here's a interesting video interview with Monome, known for their innovative hardware controller.

Using a Wii controller with Max/MSP



At the SEAMUS 2008 conference in Salt Lake City, Jeff Stolet of the University of Oregon did a fun piece using 2 Wii controllers to control a Max/MSP patch which in turn processed live video and sound. Here's a useful Max object developed by Masayuki Akamatsu which uses the Bluetooth API to let you use a Wii remote with Max/MSP 4.6.

DIY Leslie Speaker

I'm definitely going to try and build a homemade leslie speaker - plug-ins will only get you so far!