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Making Sounds with Numbers: A Tutorial on Music Software Dedicated to Digital Audio

“…Region References Scalings Figure 3: A snapshot of a typical ProTools c editing session a pointer to the actual sound le). Notice the on-they amplitude rescaling of some of the sound les 14 Graphical sound editors are extremely widespread on most hardware platforms: while there is no current favourite application, each platform sports one or more widely used editors which may range from the US$ 10000 professional editing suites for the Apple Macintosh to the many free open-source programs for unix workstations. In the latter category, it is worthwile to mention the snd application by Bill Schottstaedt 15 which features a back-end processing in CLM (see sec.…”

“…Many applications feature a graphical interface that allows direct editing in the frequency-domain: 14 ProTools c is manufactured by Digidesign (http://www.digidesign.com) the prototypical application in this eld is Audiosculpt developed at the IRCAM 16 for the Apple Macintosh platform. Based on a versatile FFT-based phase vocoder called SVP, Audiosculpt is essentially a drawing program which allows the user to \draw" on the spectrum surface of a sound.…”