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CREATE Software
Software developed by CREATE, available via FTP.
To download this software you need an FTP client application. Modern web browers have this built in and will work automatically. Note that the Safari web browser handles FTP by mounting the FTP server as a volume in the Finder, not by showing the contents of the FTP server in a browser window.
If you need a separate FTP program see Wikipedia's Comparison of FTP Client Software.
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PulsarGenerator
PulsarGenerator, a New Sound Synthesis Program for MacOS
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PulsarGenerator is an interactive sound synthesis program for MacOS written by Alberto de Campo and Curtis Roads; it generates sound particles called pulsars. The theory of pulsar synthesis is explained in an article in the March 2001 issue of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. As of January 2003, the full working version is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the PulsarGenerator home page.
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Siren
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Squeak is a new implementation of the Smalltalk programming environment. It was developed at Apple Labs, and has been ported to a variety of computers. Compared to other Smalltalk systems, Squeak has four important features: (1) portability (to the Macintosh, Windows PCs, and many flavors of UNIX); (2) speed (it uses native C for compute-intensive code); (3) price (free, including all source code!); and (4) sophistication (full Smalltalk-80 language, libraries, and tools, with many useful extensions).
The Siren system is a new object-oriented (OO) software tool kit for music applications. Siren's design was derived from the author's 14-years of experience building Smalltalk-based music tools. The intention is to support music composition, digital sound synthesis and processing, and live performance within a free, portable, high-level software tool kit.
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MiXViews
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MiXViews is a tool for graphically manipulating digital audio and other forms of digital data in a large variety of ways. It was originally written by Douglas Scott during 1991 and 1992 when he was the technical director of the UCSB computer music studio (now known as CREATE). The first part of the name comes from early computer music history (one of the first software systems for generating computer music was called "MIX") and the second part comes from InterViews, an early object-oriented toolkit written on top of the X Window System, on which the program is based.
MiXViews is an evolutionary step beyond Doug's first sound editor, mixview, which was written in 1987 while he was a graduate student at Columbia University. The original software only supported a single editor window, and only supported a small set of audio formats and sample data types. As a tool for computer musicians, MiXViews has features which extend beyond simple mixing, including various forms of pitch, amplitude, and formant analysis, plus the ability to import and export data files that can be used by other computer music software systems. It ran first on Sun workstations, then on NeXT computers, then on SGI boxes. When Douglas left U.C.S.B. in 1995, he continued development of his software, porting it to additional platforms and adding more features, right on up to the present time.
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MODE
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The MODE is a general-purpose music description and composition system; it is a re-implementation of the HyperScore ToolKit (HSTK), and went by the name of Topaz in the interim. Each of these versions was tailored to a specific version of the Xerox- then-ParcPlace Smalltalk-80 virtual image/virtual machine; MODE 1.1 is known to work on ParcPlace Systems, Inc. Objectworks\Smalltalk Release 4.1 running on a Sun SPARC workstation.
Various versions and components of the MODE are documented in two chapters in the book "The Well-Tempered Object: Musical Applications of Object- Oriented Software Technology" (S. T. Pope, ed. MIT Press, 1991), in papers in the Proceedings of the 1987, 1989, 1991, and 1992 ICMC conferences, in an article in "Computer Music Journal" 16:3, Fall, 1992.
There are several elements of the MODE:
a music representation language (SmOKe events, sounds);
several schedulers and I/O drivers (voices, sound files);
user interface components for musical applications; and
several built-in applications (editors and browsers for MODE objects).
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Cloud Generator
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The Cloud Generator program was developed by Curtis Roads and John Alexander. Cloud Generator synthesizes granular sounds in units called "clouds" and also "granulates" stereo sound files. The program uses the AIFF file format. We are releasing two versions of the program at this time:
1. Cloud Generator FPU
This version is for older-style Macintosh computers powered by 680X0 microprocessors with floating-point units (FPU). It will work best on Quadra-class models.
2. Cloud Generator NFPU
This version is for two classes of computers:
a. All Power Macintosh models
b. Older-style Macintosh computers without a floating-point unit
There is no native Power Macintosh version of the program at this time. The NFPU version seems to work fast enough for most applications. The computation time is directly dependent on the density of grains and the grain duration, so short grains and sparse densities are computed quickly.
The "Cloud Generator Manual" documents the technique of granular synthesis and the specific features of the Cloud Generator program
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Emission Control
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EmissionControl (EC) is a new interactive real-time program for granular synthesis and sound file granulation, with many novel features, including modulation of synthesis parameters, multiple sound file input, and variable-Q filtering on a grain-by-grain basis. EC was originally written in 2004 and has been updated several times since then. The current version dates to November 2007. Written by David Thall (MS, Media Arts and Technology, UCSB 2005) in consultation with Prof. Curtis Roads, the program code runs within the SuperCollider 3 regime using a special library written in the C++ language. EC currently runs only on MAC Power PC.
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