Software Synth

TOC

• Advantages of software synth over hardware
• Advantages of real-time over non-real time soft synth
• Overview
• Other software
  • NetSound (Casey, Smaragdis ICMC96) http://sound.media.mit.edu/~mkc/icmc96/icmc96.html
  • Csound, Cmusic, Common Music http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Software/cm/cm.html,
  • Rtcmix for Linux http://www.panix.com/~topper/Cmix/Cmix.html
  • NeXT Music Kit, SynthBuilder, Cmix
  • Kyma/Capybara
  • IRCAM FTS (Faster Than Sound) http://www.ircam.fr/produits-real/logiciels/FTS-e.html
  • Nyquist http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/music/web/music.software.html
  • Cecilia 2.0 http://www.musique.umontreal.ca/electro/CEC/man/index.html
  • ObjektSynth (BeOS) http://www.objektsynth.com/announce/
  • Jsyn (Java/Win) http://www.softsynth.com/jsyn/
• History of Max
• History of SC
• History of PD
• Explanation of MAX
• Explanation of SC
• Explanation of PD
  • PD ftp://crca-ftp.ucsd.edu
  • PD/Linux http://iem.mhsg.ac.at/~geiger
  • GEM http://cybermed.ucsd.edu/mdanks/

• Advantages, features, of each over others
  • Max
  • SC
  • Pd: Source code, GEM, graphic
• Same experiment on all three platforms
• Different experiment on each software that highlight, exemplify, demonstrate the strength of each.

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