Soundshaper Lite is now provided free of charge with CDP PC Systems (replacing Soundshaper Standard Edition). It is compatible with Release 5, but supports only a few Release 6 processes.

Soundshaper Pro is an option available for new or existing CDP PC Systems that do not yet have Soundshaper Pro and need full Release 6 compatibility, particularly for its new multi-channel functions. The current version of Soundshaper Pro is 3.1, and version 4 is due shortly. Soundshaper Pro is a 'front-end', meaning that it accesses and uses the underlying CDP sound transformation and editing programs. Therefore, please note that the CDP software must be ordered as well as Soundshaper Pro.

If you already have Soundshaper Pro, you can check for updates at http://www.ensemble-software.co.uk.

Soundshaper Pro and Soundshaper Lite share several important features:

• Create multi-process patches in a simple grid structure
• Save and recall patches, or run with different source files
• Re-edit patch cells or replace with alternative processes
• MIDI to Sequencer: render MIDI files using your own samples

Soundshaper Pro can be purchased as a single licence (allowing 2 installs, e.g., Desktop and Laptop), or for different Site Licence configurations. For a Site Licence configuration not shown below, please contact CDP or Robert Fraser.

If you study or teach at an educational institution, or if the institution itself is ordering, do not forget to ask for and then enter the voucher code to get the 10% discount.

Please note that Soundshaper Pro is downloaded from Robert Fraser's website http://www.ensemble-software.co.uk and then registered according to the procedure found in InstallSSP.txt in the 'docs' folder after you unzip it.

Single Soundshaper Pro Licence (PC)	£25.00
3-Site Soundshaper Pro Licence (PC)	£36.00
5-Site Soundshaper Pro Licence (PC)	£45.00
7-Site Soundshaper Pro Licence (PC)	£60.00
10-Site Soundshaper Pro Licence (PC)	£80.00
15-Site Soundshaper Pro Licence (PC)	£120.00
20-Site Soundshaper Pro Licence (PC)	£160.00

Soundshaper Pro Information PDF
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This software is supplied as standard with the CDP PC System, new or Upgrade. It can also be purchased on its own without the rest of the CDP Software.

GrainMill takes an existing sound and extracts from it small pieces - i.e., 'grains', and recombines them, usually many times over, to form a new sound. This process is known as 'granulation'. It is not, strictly speaking, 'granular synthesis', which creates the sound entirely from within the computer. Rather it granularises an existing sound.

In GrainMill, grains can be very short indeed (less than 20 milliseconds), or several seconds in length. They can be spread very thinly, leaving gaps, or very thickly, creating extremely dense textures. The program has time-varying controls for grainsize, density, pitch, spatial placement and amplitude.

GrainMill also has a built-in time-varying contour (automation) editor called BrkEdit.

GrainMill (PC)

£29.00

Grainmill Information PDF
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Tabula Vigilans (i.e., 'Vigilant Table') is an advanced algorithmic composition language. Primarily, it is a score processor. It can define and replay a huge range of possibilities, from completely conventional melodic and harmonic music to envelope-shaped multi-event textures with random features. It is not designed to create or shape sounds.

It is script-based, meaning that the user writes a text file which is C-like in nature. Many system, musical and mathematical rules can be called within the script, which also supports reading and writing data files, creating procedures whereby sets of modules can be created, MIDI In and MIDI Out, defining MIDI voices and channels, scheduling of events, etc.

Tabula Vigilans can also operate as a real-time MIDI instrument that can play back pre-programmed or instantly generated music under mouse or keyboard control.

The power of the software is illustrated by the Form-Builder/Score-Builder duo, applications developed by its author, Richard Orton, using Tabula Vigilans. Here the user can select which type of instrumental ensemble to write for, then define the music using a number of high level compositional rules, create the composition and output it directly to the notation program Sibelius.

Tabula Vigilans (PC)

£39.00

Tabula Vigilans Information PDF
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