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Links to Other Software and Free Downloads
Please note that all free software contributed to and distributed
by CDP
remains the responsibility of the respective authors.
ProcessPack- Wellspring Music's ProcessPack – this composition powerhouse by Richard Orton and Archer Endrich has been released for some time now, and is growing rapidly.
- ProcessPack is an umbrella program for a number
of (projected) high-level composition modules. The first of these is
DISPERSAL, which is now available from Wellspring Music.
- DISPERSAL combines a number of CDP's sound processing programs
with algorithmic scripting to make it possible to compose by working
directly with a musical design template, in this case, that of
'dispersal'.
- HOVER is a new module that reads a soundfile in complex ways, with
astonishing aural results.
- Other new modules added since during this, its first year, are
PlayMix, a module that enables you to mix and audition soundfiles
in real-time, and Pyramid, which layers sounds with shape
presets.
- A PDF file with a
more detailed description is available.
- You can also read about it in more technical detail, listen to
some example soundfiles, and place an order on the
Wellspring Music
Website.
- ProcessPack is available only for PC computers,
on offer for £27.
Soundshaper Lite Edition- A free graphic user interface supporting all CDP processes except those introduced in Release 6. Optimized for stereo, this version is more powerful than the original version of Soundshaper Pro and offers the beginner an accessible insight into the power of the CDP system. Soundshaper has no processing functionality unless the CDP programs are also present. You can download the program from author Robert Fraser's website:
http://www.ensemble-software.co.uk. Also see our PDF information page for Soundshaper Pro.
Sound Loom- This graphic user interface for the CDP programs is written by
Trevor Wishart. It also has no functionality without the CDP
programs. At the time of writing, the current version is 13.0.0.
A fully working version is available free from his website:
http://www.trevorwishart.co.uk. Sound Loom is written
in Tcl/Tk (which can be freely downloaded from
http://www.dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/). Please note
that current versions of Sound Loom have Tcl/Tk built-in and
do not require that it be installed on your computer. Also see our PDF
information page for Sound Loom.
GrainMill Demo Version- A demo version of this powerful way to granulate sounds can be
downloaded from
http://people.bath.ac.uk/~masrwd/grndemo.zip". Also see our
information page for GrainMill.
NB - GrainMill is PC-only. The demo version is for 16-bit
soundfiles.
Multi-Channel Toolkit- This represents Richard Dobson's important research into multi-channel
facilities (greater than 2 channels) needed for various types of 'surround'
sound. In Release 6 the Toolkit functions are built into the main CDP
System, Sound Loom and Soundshaper, but can also be acquired separately as command line tools. The Toolkit is downloaded from Richard's website:
http://people.bath.ac.uk/~masrwd/mctools.html
MAC OSX version:
http://people.bath.ac.uk/~masrwd/mctools.osx.tgz
Pvstream- This prototype CDP plug-in is written by Richard Dobson, and
the Direct-X version can be downloaded from his website:
http://people.bath.ac.uk/~masrwd/pvstream_dx.zip. Reference is
also made in the /~masrwd/ section of Richard's work on an extended pvoc
format: 'pvocex', which is part of the background work for these
plugins.
Prototype CDP VST plugin- Richard's ongoing work towards CDP plugins can be seen via this
download:
http://people.bath.ac.uk/~masrwd/pvplugswin.zip.
AL-ERWIN Granulation & Algorithmic Package- Written by Rajmil Fischman with the assistance of an Arts and
Humanities Research Board (AHRB) grant, this is a highly featured software
combo with a sophisticated graphic user interface, including both
granular synthesis and algorithmic mixing. A fully working version can be
downloaded from
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/mu/staff/rajmilfischmanalsoftware01.htm
. Also see our information page
about this software. Please note that this software is still supplied with CDP
Systems, as well as via the above link to Rajmil's website page.
Csound- One of the world's leading software synthesis 'engines', Csound
is coming of age with a rapid expansion of its internal facilities
(some from CDP!) and the advent of new graphic environments. See
Dennis Miller's comprehensive article on in Electronic
Musician: Csound: It's Not Just for Techies Anymore
(Vol 18, No. 8, July 2002).
- Also see the tutorial texts edited by Richard Boulanger; these are
listed on our Publications
page.
- Mention was made on our News Page of Steven Yi's Blue, a
well-designed graphic front end for Csound, with graphic orchestra
editor and time-line score assembler. See the
Csound Website
for more information.
- Csound can be downloaded from John Fitch's website:
http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/dreamware.html
- Other related software can be downloaded from this site:
- SAOLC - the reference implementation of the new language for the
Structured Audio component of MPEG-4.
- SFRONT - an implementation of SAOL developed at Berkeley which
creates a compilable file in C.
- jMAX - IRCAM's free Open-Source version of MAX (Linux. SGI), based
on Java.
- PD - Miller Puckette's public domain Open Source version of MAX.
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