Research Seminar - September 10, 1999

Seminar Announcement

Abstract

Computing hardware is now fast enough to allow general purpose machines to perform significant amounts of real-time synthesis and signal processing. Implementing a synthesizer on such hardware greatly expands a musician's degrees, ease and freedom of control over sound. This is especially true in an exceedingly real-time enviroment such as during a performance, allowing a wide range of I/O devices for media and control streams to cooperate and interact almost as soon as a performer requires it.

I shall describe the object based design of my VS1 synthesizer, a multi-timbral, polyphonic, multi-synthesis method synthesizer, explain some of the implementation tricks and tips, and demonstrate VS1 doing its thing.

A list of VS1's features and further info may be found on the Vellocet website:http://vellocet.ii.net/software/VS1.html