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Modular Software Music Studio
A modular software music studio consists of a plugin architecture that allows the audio to be routed from one plugin to another in many ways, similar to how cables carry an audio signal between physical pieces of hardware. All aspects of signal synthesis and manipulation are handled entirely by the plugin system. Signal synthesis is performed by "Generators" such as synthesizers, noise generator functions, samplers, and trackers. The signal can then be manipulated further by "Effects" such as distortions, filters, delays, and mastering plugins. List of software with modular capabilities Free audio software * SpiralSynthModular * Pure Data * jMax * SynFactory * aRts * Jeskola Buzz * Psycle is a tracker combined with modular capabilities * SuperCollider is a platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition * Buzztrax * Aldrin * Carla * VCV Rack *FAUST Other audio software * Audulus *Reaktor *AudioMulch *Max/Msp *Bidule *Reason * SynthEdit * SynthMaker * SunVox * Audio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Module (programming)
Modular programming is a software design technique that emphasizes separating the functionality of a program into independent, interchangeable modules, such that each contains everything necessary to execute only one aspect of the desired functionality. A module interface expresses the elements that are provided and required by the module. The elements defined in the interface are detectable by other modules. The implementation contains the working code that corresponds to the elements declared in the interface. Modular programming is closely related to structured programming and object-oriented programming, all having the same goal of facilitating construction of large software programs and systems by decomposition into smaller pieces, and all originating around the 1960s. While the historical usage of these terms has been inconsistent, "modular programming" now refers to the high-level decomposition of the code of an entire program into pieces: structured programming to the low ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FAUST (programming Language)
FAUST (Functional AUdio STream) is a Domain specific language, domain-specific Purely functional programming, purely functional programming language for implementing signal processing algorithms in the form of Library (computing), libraries, audio plug-ins, or standalone applications. A FAUST program denotes a signal processor: a mathematical function that is applied to some input signal and then fed out. Overview The FAUST programming model combines a functional programming approach with a block diagram syntax: * The functional programming approach provides a natural framework for signal processing. Digital signals are modeled as Sequence, discrete functions of time, signal processors as Higher-order function, second order functions that operate on them, and FAUST’s block diagram ''composition operators'', used to combine signal processors together, as third order functions, etc. * Block diagrams, even if purely textual as in FAUST, promote a modular approach to signal proces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Integra Live
Integra Live is open-source software for interactive sound design developed and maintained by the Integra Lab at Birmingham Conservatoire, part of Birmingham City University. The software takes an audio input either from the computer's audio interface or from an audio file, and allows various types of audio transformation to be applied. The software can be used in live performance as well as in creating new sounds or composing new music in a studio. Integra Live is supported on PC computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system and on Apple computers running OS X. History Origins of Integra Live Integra Live originated as the Integra Environment proposed as one of the outcomes of the first phase of the Integra Project (Integra 1), which ran from 5/9/2005 to 4/9/2008. The aim of the Integra Environment was to create a "new software environment for the composition and performance of live electronic music" that would "simplify, standardize and humanize the use of live, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bespoke
The word ''bespoke'' () has evolved from a verb meaning 'to speak for something', to its contemporary usage as an adjective. Originally, the adjective ''bespoke'' described tailor-made suits and shoes. Later, it described anything commissioned to a particular specification (altered or tailored to the customs, tastes, or usage of an individual purchaser). In contemporary usage, ''bespoke'' has become a general marketing and branding concept implying exclusivity and limited runs. Origin ''Bespoke'' is derived from the verb ''bespeak'', meaning to "speak for something". The particular meaning of the verb form is first cited from 1583 and given in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'': "to speak for, to arrange for, engage beforehand: to 'order' (goods)." The adjective "bespoken" means "ordered, commissioned, arranged for" and is first cited from 1607. According to ''Collins English Dictionary'', the term was generally British English in 2008. American English more commonly uses the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SunVox
SunVox, also known as ''SunVox Modular Music Creation Studio'', is a music creation tool built around the SunVox Engine, a software-based modular synthesizer and tracker-based sequencer. It is available for multiple platforms including Windows, MacOS, Linux on the desktop and iOS, Android in the mobile sphere. The desktop versions are freely available for download on the developer's website while a paid version for iOS and Android apps, respectively, is purchasable from those platforms' official app stores. There was also, at one time, a release for Palm OS Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) was a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provi ... devices. The underlying SunVox engine was developed as free software under the BSD License prior to version 1.4. Features Commentary The website TapeOp.com had the foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SynthEdit
SynthEdit is a modular audio plugin development environment which uses a visual editor. First conceived in 1987 by programmer Jeff McClintock and initially distributed in 1999, it was officially released in 2005. Along with Native Instruments' Reaktor and the closely-related FlowStone (previously known as ''SynthMaker'') by DSPRobotics, SynthEdit has been recognised as one of the few tools for independent synthesizer development that don't require traditional programming like JUCE, and the only visual programming environment with 64-bit VST 3 support. Overview SynthEdit provides a GUI editing system and a full MIDI interface for hardware controllers. It can export projects as VST plugins, allowing creations to be used as instruments and effects inside of most DAWs and on macOS, where SynthEdit isn't available. Interface Below a toolbar containing a switch (stylised as a green power button) to start and stop the audio engine, SynthEdit's interface is divided into three vert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reason (program)
Reason is the capacity of applying logic Consciousness, consciously by Logical consequence, drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth. It is closely associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, science, language, mathematics, and art, and is normally considered to be a distinguishing ability possessed by humans. Reason is sometimes referred to as rationality. Reasoning is associated with the acts of Thought, thinking and cognition, and involves the use of one's intellect. The field of logic studies the ways in which humans can use formal reasoning to produce Validity (logic), logically valid arguments. Reasoning may be subdivided into Logical form, forms of logical reasoning, such as deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, and abductive reasoning. Aristotle drew a distinction between logical discursive reasoning (reason proper), and Intuition (psychology), intuitive reasoning, in which the reasoning process ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bidule
Bidule is a commercial software application for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia produced by the Canadian company Plogue Arts and Technology. It runs on both Windows and Mac computers. Bidule uses a modular structure based on a patch cord metaphor much like AudioMulch, Reaktor, Pure Data, and Max/MSP. Individual modules are called bidules (the Plogue web site states that the word "Bidule" is French for "thingy" or "gadget"). A set of bidules and connections is called a layout, and sub-patches called groups can be built within layouts and saved for use elsewhere. The program features real time audio, MIDI, Open Sound Control (OSC), and spectral processing. With other audio DAW software ReWire, Bidule can run as a ReWire mixer or device. Bidule can run standalone or as a VST, VSTi or AU plugin, and can host the same. ASIO/CoreAudio is supported for low latency audio. Bidule can use multithread processing, and there is a beta build for discrete proces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max/Msp
Max, also known as Max/MSP/Jitter, is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74. Over its more than thirty-year history, it has been used by composers, performers, software designers, researchers, and artists to create recordings, performances, and installations. The Max program is modular, with most routines existing as shared libraries. An application programming interface (API) allows third-party development of new routines (named ''external objects''). Thus, Max has a large user base of programmers unaffiliated with Cycling '74 who enhance the software with commercial and non-commercial extensions to the program. Because of this extensible design, which simultaneously represents both the program's structure and its graphical user interface (GUI), Max has been described as the lingua franca for developing interactive music performance software. History 1980s: Miller Puckette began work o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
