RELATED SOFTWARE

Though not using the CDP system directly, we see the following programs as complementary to CDP. They have also been written, or contributed to, by members of the CDP team:

AL-Erwin

AL-ERWIN Granulation & Algorithmic Package. Written by Rajmil Fischman with the assistance of an Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) grant, this is a highly featured software combo with a sophisticated graphic user interface, including both granular synthesis and algorithmic mixing.

AL Mix screen showing many sonic events:
   

Erwin granulation parameters:
   

A fully working version can be downloaded from here. Also see our information page about this software.

Clouds

This is another contribution written by Rajmil Fischman. Clouds implements a multi-platform real-time asynchronous granular synthesis created with MAX. It can record a variety of sources, including synthesised waveforms, microphone capture and /or audio files. Output formats include mono, stereo, 5.1 surround, octophonic and audio files in a variety of formats. Parameters can be handled graphically or via text files containing breakpoint values.

Clouds main screen (reduced), showing controls for the four simultaneous granulation streams:
   

Download Clouds from here.

MAES (Manual Actions Expressive System)

Also by Rajmil Fischman, MAES aims to enable music creation and performance using natural hand actions (e.g. hitting virtual objects, shaking them, etc.). Gestures are fully programmable and result from tracking and analysing hand motion and finger bend, potentially allowing performers to concentrate on natural actions from our daily use of the hands. It is designed to work with the P5 Glove. This software can be downloaded here.

Compose with Sounds

Leigh Landy and his team of researchers at DeMontfort University have created software (free download) and tutorial materials for composing with sounds. This tremendous resource covers all major areas and is designed for those new to the field, whether young or old.

Compose With Sounds Mix Page:
   

Note the breadth of the following topics to which there are links on their Website:

• CREATE: Compose with Sounds, Composer Case Studies, Composition Tutorials
• LEARN: Discovering Music all around us, Properties of Sounds, Organising Sounds, The Science of Sounds
• LISTENING: Listening Training, Listening Room
• Encylopaedia

Csound

CDP's links to the Csound community go back many years. One of the world's leading software synthesis 'engines', Csound has come of age with a rapid expansion of its internal facilities (some from CDP!) and the advent of graphic environments and realtime operation. (See for example Dennis Miller's comprehensive article in Electronic Musician: Csound: It's Not Just for Techies Anymore 2 Vol 18, No. 8, July 2002).

The new facilities in Tabula Vigilans enable TV scripts to call CSound ones and share a common environment; Soundshaper can also run Csound scripts. Another link is that Richard Dobson's PVOCEX format, the standard for spectral files in CSound, has now been integrated into CDP.

Steven Yi's Blue is a well-designed graphic front-end for Csound, with a graphic orchestra editor and time-line score assembler. See the Kunstmusik site for more information.

Blue: screenshot (reduced) of timeline and orchestra object editor:
   

Csound can be downloaded from: https://csound.com.