This article describes a set of modules for Max/MSP for real-time sound analysis and synthesis combining various models, representations and timing paradigms. Gabor provides a unified framework for granular synthesis, PSOLA, phase vocoder, additive synthesis and other STFT techniques. Gabor’s processing scheme allows for the treatment of atomic sound particles at arbitrary rates and instants. Gabor is based on FTM, an extension of Max/MSP, introducing complex data structures such as matrices and sequences to the Max data flow programming paradigm. Most of the signal processing operators of the Gabor modules handle vector and matrix representations closely related to SDIF sound description formats.

Download

In this article we present the real-time audio plug-in X-Micks, an audio processing application allowing for remixing and hybridization of two beat-synchronized audio streams, which provides user interaction based on the extraction and visual rendering of information from the two real-time audio streams. In the current version, the plug-in uses the beat grid information provided by the plug-in host and a real-time estimation of energy in chosen frequency bands to construct an interactive matrix representation allowing for intuitive and efficient user interaction based on familiar representations such as the sonogram and the step sequencer. After trying to formulate the constitutional qualities of a rising new generation of audio processing tools of which we claim X-Micks being an exemplary specimen, the article gives an overview over the application’s interface, functionalities and implementaion.

Download