Table lookup oscillators form a basic building block of most soft- ware synthesis systems. Severa... more Table lookup oscillators form a basic building block of most soft- ware synthesis systems. Several of the classical digital and analog synthesis techniques require their use. The classical table lookup oscillator (1, 2) is commonly discussed regarding its amplitude er- ror, but another source of error is mostly disregarded, although it influences the sound quality to a much higher degree,
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on New interfaces …, 2006
Using mobile devices as instruments in computer music is one of the goals of the Pure Data anywh... more Using mobile devices as instruments in computer music is one of the goals of the Pure Data anywhere project [5]. An obstacle we encounter is controllability, because most of the devices do not offer the necessary interface, such as MIDI or USB, in order to be controlled by ...
This article reflects the current state of the reacTable* project, an electronic music instrument... more This article reflects the current state of the reacTable* project, an electronic music instrument with a tangible table-based interface, which is currently under development at the Audiovisual Institute at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In this paper we are focussing on the issue of Dynamic Patching, which is a particular and unique aspect of the sound synthesis and control paradigms of the reacTable*. Unlike common visual programming languages for sound synthesis, which conceptually separate the patch building process from the actual musical performance, the reacTable* combines the construction and playing of the instrument in a unique way. The tangible interface allows direct manipulation control over any of the used building blocks, which physically represent the whole synthesizer function.
We present an Internet browser plug-in for interactive real-time sound synthesis. The plug-in run... more We present an Internet browser plug-in for interactive real-time sound synthesis. The plug-in runs the pure data (Pd) sound synthesis engine within the browser, and allows flexible and transparent sound generation and control. Pd is a general sound synthesis language that is based on the MAX graphical programming paradigm, which allows constructing and implementing a broad range of sound synthesis algorithms and paradigms, ranging from simple MIDI-like sample playback up to interactive sound generation and manipulation. This plug-in is cross-platform and runs on Windows Internet Explorer as well as on Netscape/Mozilla on Windows, OSX and Linux platforms. It opens a wide range of new possibilities for the presentation of dynamic multimedia content, where sound plays an important role and the playback of static sound files is not anymore sufficient. The data used by the plug-in that has to be transmitted over the net, is very small in size and thus perfectly suitable for low bandwidth connections. Examples of potential applications are games, adaptive sound backgrounds, interactive sound installations, Web sites, collaborative music on the Web, education and e-learning. The first implementation of the Pd plug-in has been written for a project collaboration with the Catalan theater group "La Fura dels Baus".
Table lookup oscillators form a basic building block of most soft- ware synthesis systems. Severa... more Table lookup oscillators form a basic building block of most soft- ware synthesis systems. Several of the classical digital and analog synthesis techniques require their use. The classical table lookup oscillator (1, 2) is commonly discussed regarding its amplitude er- ror, but another source of error is mostly disregarded, although it influences the sound quality to a much higher degree,
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on New interfaces …, 2006
Using mobile devices as instruments in computer music is one of the goals of the Pure Data anywh... more Using mobile devices as instruments in computer music is one of the goals of the Pure Data anywhere project [5]. An obstacle we encounter is controllability, because most of the devices do not offer the necessary interface, such as MIDI or USB, in order to be controlled by ...
This article reflects the current state of the reacTable* project, an electronic music instrument... more This article reflects the current state of the reacTable* project, an electronic music instrument with a tangible table-based interface, which is currently under development at the Audiovisual Institute at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In this paper we are focussing on the issue of Dynamic Patching, which is a particular and unique aspect of the sound synthesis and control paradigms of the reacTable*. Unlike common visual programming languages for sound synthesis, which conceptually separate the patch building process from the actual musical performance, the reacTable* combines the construction and playing of the instrument in a unique way. The tangible interface allows direct manipulation control over any of the used building blocks, which physically represent the whole synthesizer function.
We present an Internet browser plug-in for interactive real-time sound synthesis. The plug-in run... more We present an Internet browser plug-in for interactive real-time sound synthesis. The plug-in runs the pure data (Pd) sound synthesis engine within the browser, and allows flexible and transparent sound generation and control. Pd is a general sound synthesis language that is based on the MAX graphical programming paradigm, which allows constructing and implementing a broad range of sound synthesis algorithms and paradigms, ranging from simple MIDI-like sample playback up to interactive sound generation and manipulation. This plug-in is cross-platform and runs on Windows Internet Explorer as well as on Netscape/Mozilla on Windows, OSX and Linux platforms. It opens a wide range of new possibilities for the presentation of dynamic multimedia content, where sound plays an important role and the playback of static sound files is not anymore sufficient. The data used by the plug-in that has to be transmitted over the net, is very small in size and thus perfectly suitable for low bandwidth connections. Examples of potential applications are games, adaptive sound backgrounds, interactive sound installations, Web sites, collaborative music on the Web, education and e-learning. The first implementation of the Pd plug-in has been written for a project collaboration with the Catalan theater group "La Fura dels Baus".
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