Computer Music Class Resources (G6611/fall-2010)

ALSO: These need a bit of updating right now (there are a number of items that aren't relevant to this class any longer), coming soon...

RTcmix

RTcmix documentation and download page -- we will be using RTcmix a fair amount in class to demonstrate various concepts.

Max/MSP/Jitter

Cycling74 home page

maxobjects.com -- good collection of third-party external objects

Basic Information/Tutorials

General Information Sites

Audio Glossary -- "audio terms explained" it says. Note the clever alphabetic index on the left

Musical Instrument Samples -- a large on-line archive from the University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios




Basic Synthesis Information

beast.gtk.org/links-synthesis -- a bunch of articles about synthesizing different sounds, very "pragmatic" in approach. Also some good links to other sites.

UC Santa Cruz Tutorials -- good explanations of several topics by Peter Elsea

Intro to Digital Audio -- from a class Rick Taube teaches at the University of Illinois




DSP links -- FFT Information

www.fftw.org -- these people are maniacs. Supposedly home of the "fastest FFT in the west". Lots of source code available.

fftw links -- scroll down to the "Explanatory Material" section. Some of the 'explanations' are pretty dense, but there's good stuff here.

FFT lab -- this is just sorta fun. Click on those yellow boxes...

FFT tutorial -- yeah, here you go.




DSP links -- Digital Filter Information

Luke's filter web page

Julius O. Smith's on-line web pages

DSP Tutor

Yehar's digital sound processing tutorial for the braindead!




wxWindows Resource Pages

wxwindows.org -- the main page for the window/graphics development environment; we will be using this a fair amount in our class apps

wxWindows docs -- a pretty good set of docs + tutorials




OpenGL Resource Pages

OpenGL.org -- the main place for OpenGL these days

SGI OpenGL -- the old SGI OpenGL page

Apple's OpenGL -- for Macs
(Apple's Developer Web Page)

Mesa 3D -- a free implementation of OpenGL (Linux, etc.)




These are kind of outdated, but still useful

basic UNIX tutorial

Software Download/Documentation Sites

link resource site for Linux audio apps

MP3 players/encoders for Linux

Books/Texts

Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications by Perry Cook

A Digital Signal Processing Primer by Ken Steiglitz

Microsound by Curtis Roads

the emf book page from The Electronic Music Foundation

The Music-DSP list archive, a good listing of a lot of DSP books, etc.

Other Computer Music Languages

OpenMusic

Columbia OM on-line course -- password required

CSOUND

csounds.com -- "everything csound"...

Matt Ingall's web pages at csounds.com -- Matt's pages at the main CSOUND site (I think these are now more up-to-date than his Columbia page). Good links here, too.

On-line CSOUND manual

other versions of the CSOUND manual -- pdf, ASCII, html (for downloading)

JSyn

the main JSyn web page -- downloads, documentation, examples, mailing list, etc.



Some Snazzy JSyn Applets not listed directly on the main JSyn page

javagran -- an interactive gran-synth thingy

MandelMusic -- fun music using the Mandelbrot set iteration

JMSL algorithmic music -- nifty/bizarre scores/sounds using JSyn and JMSL (JMSL written by Nick Didkovsky)

algorithmic piano piece -- music by Nick Didkovsky using JSyn and JMSL, this also uses a nifty FM piano patch by John Clavin

The American Mavericks Rhythmicon -- an applet reproducing an old Cowell/Theremin collaboration

ants/cellular automata -- applet using partitioned cellular automata by Daniel Howe

SuperCollider

SuperCollider Sourecforge page -- the main SuperCollider web page. Information, etc.

Audiosynth -- the original SuperCollider web page.

getting SC3 -- instructions on downloading SC3 (see the "Anonymous CVS checkout" section) and compiling it (see the "Compiling the sources" section)

The SC swiki site -- code examples and info for both SC2 and SC3

SC2 documentation -- tutorials and UGen descriptions; also useful for SC3

Smalltalk documentation -- for those who really want to get into SuperCollider. Smalltalk is the langauge SC uses, although the SC version seems somewhat modified in syntax