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At this tutorial, we’ll look in detail at some techniques for playing back samples in novel ways. In particular, we’ll explore granulation using 3rd party externals and building our own abstractions. Bring headphones and a laptop with MaxMSP installed on …
In which we briefly contextualise the course to come by considering sound, structure and time and draw some distinctions between the analytical and experiential. We then get started with a practical demonstration of software in-action. Time-scales at work in this …
In this session we’ll be experimenting some more with our Software. Practically, we’ll be looking at procedural synthesis because the theoretical frame for the session is the notion of timbre. What is Timbre? We’re going to situate our discussion in …
This shows how you can use the ASCII keyboard of your computer to detect which key has been pressed and how long for. You can use it as a starting point for managing the button input on your project. Download …
You have seen us use function in lectures many time. Here is an explanation of how it can be used to generate envelopes to shape the amplitude of sounds or other modulation parameters. Note the handy prevent retrigger thing on …
Here is an example of some list storage, recall, unpacking and manipulation. You can store lists of information inside a coll (short for collection). Make sure that the collection is formatted in the right way with index, data data data; …
NOTE videos and patches from the session are at the foot of this post. Things we must do today discuss the submission and the project brief and submission requirements and workflow – 10min discuss sampling – 40min show some sampling examples …