Re: Granular synthesis software (Koen Tanghe )


Subject: Re: Granular synthesis software
From:    Koen Tanghe  <Koen.Tanghe(at)UGENT.BE>
Date:    Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:11:40 +0200

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Gygi" <bgygi(at)EBIRE.ORG> > Does anyone know of any freely available code for granular synthesis - > pref. in Matlab, but C++ or Visual Basic would also be OK. Any leads are > appreciated. Depends on what you mean with "granular synthesis". I have written a granular effect (using a delay line, panning, feedback, pitch shifting, freezing, ...) from scratch in C++ myself, implemented as a VST and Audio Unit plugin for processing real-time sound streams (KTGranulator, you can download it at http://www.smartelectronix.com/~koen). If you really want my code or a library around my code, you can use the form on the Smartelectronix web site to contact me directly. You might also want to check out the Csound source code: I've heard that there is C code in there for different kinds of granular synthesis/processing. Never saw it myself though, so I can't tell you about the code quality. Do check out Ross Bencina's great "Implementing real-time granular synthesis" at http://www.audiomulch.com/~rossb. This might not be your standard "scientific paper" on the subject, but it surely contains a lot more to-the-point information on the implementation of the techniques than I could find in most "peer reviewed articles/books", and the accompanying GPL'ed C++ code is there too. Also, his modular program AudioMulch really *uses* the things he wrote in this article, so you're sure it really works and you can download it for free. Although I knew AudioMulch, I had never seen this information until after I implemented my granulator. It would have been much easier, especially since I wanted to make an effect very similar to his delay line granulator, but as a plugin so you can use it in several programs (any VST/AU compatible program, and also DX compatible ones if you use a VST/DX wrapper). So I hope you find the link useful (I surely do now). Also: I'm not sure about this, but I doubt you will get much information on this newsgroup for questions like yours. You're probably better off on the music-dsp mailing list/web site maintained by Bram & David at http://www.musicdsp.org (there are also code snippets for various other music processing related techniques in the code archive). I hope I at least gave you some useful directions. Good luck! Koen Tanghe


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