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rezzeJ  ·  3633 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 17, 2014

Composers Desktop Project, A horrible to use set of sound manipulation tools that can produce excellent results. Especially so if you then go on to do some granular processing. It's used a lot by Electroacoustic composers. It was originally operated at command line level, but there are some GUI versions now that are somewhat usable. I think they're overhauling the GUI at the moment, plus someone did an alright looking implementation of it into Reaper.

A typical window looks like:





kleinbl00  ·  3633 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh.

Fuck everything about that. That's the kind of thing that made me turn up my nose at MAX and spend $3k on a Kyma rig. If you can't fuck with it in realtime there's absolutely no fucking point.

rezzeJ  ·  3633 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, the offline processing can be a bit of a turn off. I would've never have adopted it myself but my tutor is an expert in it, so he was able to guide us through it efficiently. Once you get a feel for what each parameter does it isn't so bad, plus it's free.