Electronic Music II: Programming and Electronics for Art & Music

3 March 2011

Programming: Sound in Processing

• Functions, get yer functions heeyah!


• Lets do a little function review.
• --basic Function functionality
• --returning a value from a Function



• Sound in Processing


• This week we are beginning our work with sound. There are a couple of libraries for working with sound in Processing. We will mostly be talking about Mimin. This is a stable library with good documentation. Those of you who reach the limitations of Minim should explore Jsyn, which is a native Java library with many more features than Minim. However, be aware that there is currently no help for the native Java version of Jsyn, and is therefore it is only recommended for the more advanced programmers.


• Installing Libraries:
• Libraries must be put inside your "Processing/libraries/" folder. If that doesn't exist, you have to create it. (The Processing/ folder is the same place where you put all your Processing projects)
• Get the Minim library here
• Get the Jsyn library here


• Synthesis and Effects:
• noise - pink noise, white noise
• oscillators - sine wave, saw wave, pulse wave, triangle wave, square wave
• --Making some sound
• --A very simple one voice sequencer
• --The same sequencer

Assignment: DUE Wednesday March 9th