tone generation, granular synth & serial comp software

Just found some things I thought I should let u all in on :

Great Macintosh software ->
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Make A TestTone 2.0 :

Make A TestTone is a generator of sinusoidal audio test signals. It
calculates flexible, highly accurate signals that are saved to either
SoundDesigner II, AIFF, WAV or Ensoniq Paris sound files.
In addition it drops markers in the sound files, indicating the exact
frequency or amplitude at that spot.

Make-A-TestTone v 2.0 (.sit.hqx - freeware - 197 kB -Mac)
Make-A-TestTone v 2.0 (.sit - freeware - 151 kB - Mac)

< http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Free/MATTMain.html>
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Also from the same folks : thOnk_0+2

"Free granular synthesis without having to think" :

thOnk_0+2 provides the sonic treasure-chest composers can turn to to harvest
fresh, unanticipated material to solve their writers blocks with, without
having to think at all.

It is an extremely simple to use Freeware Macintosh application, that uses
Granular Synthesis to produce very diverse sounds based upon a sound file
provided by the user, where you have NO CONTROL WHATSOEVER over the process.

thOnk_0+2 (.sit.hqx - freeware - 399 kB - Mac)
thOnk_0+2 (.sit - freeware - 293 kB - Mac)

http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Free/thOnk_0_2.html
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Other great goodies by Tuukan Kotisivu :
(home page at <http://www.helsinki.fi/~ilomaki/>)

Serial Composer

What? - Serial Composer is an application which lets the user specify
criteria and then searches for 12-tone-series that fulfill the criteria
specified by user.

What criteria? - Serial Composer can test series for their interval content,
components, self-similarity, augmentation, loopability, diatonics and few
other properties.

Mac? - Yes. Serial Composer requires a PPC with a system modern enough to
have Appearance Manager - and preferably a fast one, since there are up to
39916800 series to check.

http://www.helsinki.fi/~ilomaki/sc/index.html
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He's also got :

Composers Toolbox

"... a useful tool for manipulating chords. It is mainly intended for a
composer of modern music in which manipulation of interval vectors of chords
is an inportant resource of inspiration."

http://www.helsinki.fi/~ilomaki/ctb/
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying
than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. -- Oscar Wilde
(from Tuukan's site)
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Enjoy !
- Drew

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Found this on a mailing list:

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Paris, France (July 20, 1999) -- IRCAM announces the distribution
of jMax, its software environment for music performance and real
time digital audio processing, as free software under the GNU
General Public License. jMax is currently supported on SGI
workstations and on Linux for Intel- compatible processors. Porting
to other platforms are under development, including Alpha-Linux,
Linux-PPC, Solaris, Apple MacOS X and Microsoft's Windows.
Compatibilities with Max/MSP (IRCAM/Opcode/Cycling'74)
currently running on MacOS will be pursued.

For more information and download, please visit IRCAM's Web site
at :

http://www.ircam.fr/jmax/

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Forum Ircam is a Software User Group which gathers more than
1000 users around the world (Universities, Conservatories,
Research Laboratories, Multimedia Studios, composers, sound
engineers,...) and offers access to software and services through
an annual membership. Software are distributed among three
groups: computer aided composition, sound design, realtime
interaction. Services correspond to training sessions, bi- annual
workshops, permanent technical support, technology watch,
forumnet website...

http://www.ircam.fr/forumnet/

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Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl