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For the moment, all software for Mac computers only unless indicated.
​All the material on this page is copyrighted.

Educational Software


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Wavegenerator

Download 3.3.2 (Mac)
Download 3.1 (Win)
A tool that illustrates live different basic sound waves, pink noise, white noise and microphone input. Includes a volume and frequency controller, waveform/input selector, phase controller, and AD/ADSR envelope controller, graphic and parametric EQ, waveform/sonogram/spectrogram views, keyboard controller, MIDI input. It offers real-time control over the features.
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Additizer

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Software application to explore additive synthesis. It allows visualizing and controlling the intensity of fifty oscillators in real-time, as well as manipulating envelopes and adding LFOs. It contains present sounds, arpeggiators, ADSR controller, keyboard interface and spectrum automation options. The piano roll is mapped to the computer keyboard. Monophonic.

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Filter Illustrator
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A visual and sonic interface that allows the user to experience the behavior of basic waveforms, noises and live input prior and after passing different kind of graphic filters. Features allow setting frequencies (from 20hz to 20.000 hz), activate an improviser that travels through different frequencies, link the cutoff frequency of the filter with the frequency of the improviser, and full screen mode.
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Sonic Mediums

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A simple app that allows the user to record sound through the computer’s built-in microphone, and then emulate the reproduction of it throughout different mediums: air, water and helium. The main goal is to experience how sound changes according to the medium of reproduction. It also allows real-time processing.

QD

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Quality Destroyer will give the user the ability of loading any sound recording and change its digital quality on the fly, hearing and seen sonic deformation made by both depth and sample rate changes. Phenomenons like aliasing and Nyquist frequencies can be visually and sonically experienced.
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UPCOMING  APPS

FModulator
This program will enable the user to experience Frequency Modulation visually and sonically. Will offer the option of controlling the Carrier frequency, deviation and waveform, Modulator frequency, amplitudes and waveform, an LFO-Modulation knob, spectrogram and oscilloscope view of both oscillators and a Carrier/Modulator Ratio selector. Keyboard input and linking frequencies toggle.
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AModulator
Experimental app to watch and hear how Amplitude Modulator works. Will offer the option of controlling the Carrier and Modulator frequencies, amplitudes and waveform, an LFO-Modulation knob, spectrogram and oscilloscope view of both oscillators and a Ring Modulation option. Keyboard input and linking frequencies toggle.
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Research Software

For the moment, all software for Mac computers only.
If no link present, contact me for a copy of the software.
​All the material on this page is copyrighted.

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SpaCO

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Download 1.10.1 (Mac)
Or 
​ Download Max in your computer (demo version is fine), download this file and open it in Max.

A multichannel spatial software build to help sound artist and composers to work in different multiple speakers settings (quadraphonic, octophonic, etc) in a friendly manner. Users can upload their individual audio files and make them move in a settable speaker set up by drawing with the mouse of defining fixes position changes while listening in Binaural audio, once finished the software renders the project in quadraphonic WAV to be played on the system.
Commissioned by the Edmonton Arts Council
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ReDo Synth

This is powerful polyphonic synthesizer able to take any audio input and treat it as an oscillator, I call this method RESA modulation (Resynthesized Sound Amplitude modulation). It also have a second option called double modulation where you can combine as you wish three carriers and one modulator, these carriers can modulate signals independently via AM and FM at the same time. It has a totally controllable ADSR amplitude envelope as well as four full settable noises (white, bow, blow and pizzicato). You can control independently vibrato and tremolo with customizable speed, depth and shape in each one. It has a total of 127 presents slots for you to save your sounds. It takes any MIDI piano controller as well as MIDI information from most notation software.
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PTG

The Polyrhythmic Texture Generator is a sound application that allows the user to improvise with up to four individual rhythmic layers. Each layer is generated by a different synthesis method and has its own timbric modification options. Developed for the Digital Orchestration part of the Qualifying Exams for the Doctor of Music Composition studies. 
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TallaD

A real time sound processor able to manipulate two live inputs. With the purpose of being used for open improvisation, TallaD is a real time DSP. It have the capacity of controlling instantly delay, to bend the pitch, to freeze, to granulate and to record and scan the recording wirelessly. It also allows the reproduction of one stereo sound file, as well as performance recording. It required the LEAP motion infrared controller, it supports the nanoKONTROL MIDI device.
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Approaches to Duo Electroacoustics

The software section of a serie of music composition for solo instrument and computer (including real time notation, pitch recognition and live processing). More about this research on the PDF article with the same name at the bottom of this page.
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HPSC (Hand Positioning Spatialization Controller)


By combining Synapse, IRCAM’s Spat and the Microsoft’s Kinect, this app allows the user to change the position in space of any sound recording three-dimensionally with the right hand. Movements top and bottom will position the sound above and below in real time, same with left/right, front/back and any combination of these
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Trajectory Recorder

An extension of the HPSC, that allows to record the movements of the hand. It creates three list of numbers representing the different axis: left-right, front-back- top-bottom (x,y,z), this lists can be sent to am IRCAM’s spat.oper object to reproduce it.
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Research Articles, Theses

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Article "Noneto: A Collaborative Sonic Interaction Between the Real and the Virtual" (D.Mus. Thesis) - Published ERA Education & Research Archive"
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-kpzw-v861

Creative Commons License
A Collaborative Sonic Interaction Between the Real and the Virtual by Nicolás Arnáez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Article "La Sinfonía de Babel [Babel’s Symphony]" - Published by Intonations Journal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29173/inton20
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D.Mus. Thesis Proposal - Noneto
File Size: 6800 kb
File Type: pdf
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Kaija Saariaho - From the Grammar of Dreams: The Composer and the Work
File Size: 4855 kb
File Type: pdf
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Noise in Music or Music in Noise? A Short Discussion on the Incorporation of “Other” Sounds in Music Making
File Size: 177 kb
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Postmodern Innovation in Music Compositional Practices on the 20th Century: From the Disruption of Tonal Music to Holy Minimalism
File Size: 184 kb
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An Interactive Model for Music Composition
File Size: 2181 kb
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Towards an Augmented Understanding of the Musical Experience. Interactivity as the Structure of a New Music Compositional Model
File Size: 188 kb
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Minimalism and Sound Art
File Size: 137 kb
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Interactivity in Music. Annotated bibliography
File Size: 190 kb
File Type: pdf
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Applied Indeterminacy
File Size: 3949 kb
File Type: pdf
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Approaches to Duo Electroacoustics
File Size: 911 kb
File Type: pdf
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Article "The Attribute of Space in Music. Three Examples" (M.Mus. Thesis) - Published by ERA Education & Research Archive
DOI:
 
https://doi.org/10.7939/R32J68C8C
Sud, Unifying Worlds Through the Music
File Size: 243 kb
File Type: pdf
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The Use of Space in Music from 1950 onwards. A Contribution of Electroacoustics to Music Theories (Undergraduate Thesis) - SPANISH
File Size: 1200 kb
File Type: pdf
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