The Eastman Audio Research Studio has a number of resources below that are helpful in learning concepts and techniques for various programming environments. Some of these resources can be found all over the web, while others were developed in-house by many of the former Computer Music Center Faculty and Students.
Studio
sflib
- EARS Sample Libraries (sflib and sflib96)
Sony PCM-D50 Recorder
SSH Access
Linux Guide
- Abstract and Table of Contents
- Section 1: Introduction to the ECMC Computer Network
- Section 2: A quick window manager and Unix Tutorial
- Section 3: The Audio System in the Linux Sound Room (room 52)
- Section 4: Listing and Playing Soundfiles
- Section 5: Using the ECMC Compact Disc and DVD decks
- Section 6: File copying, conversion and archiving
- Section 7: Spatial ambience and localization programs
- Section 8: Introduction to the Eastman Csound Library
- Section 9: Analysis and resynthesis procedures
Audio Editors/Mixers, and Encoding
Audacity
- Audacity
- 2.x.x Manual (cross-platform multitrack soundfile editor)
Logic
- Overview of Logic
- Logic Pro9 User Manual
- Exploring Logic Pro9 (introduction to Logic by topic)
- Logic Studio Effects (delays, distortion, dynamics processors, EQs, modulation, pitch, reverb, spatialization, utilities)
- Logic Studio Instruments and Effects (Includes documentation on Logic's built-in MIDI instruments as well as on the effects listed above)
Ardour
- Ardour Website
- Ardour 3 Manual (not yet available for Mac OSX)
- Ardour 2 Manual (incomplete)
- Introduction to Ardour Floss manual
Rezound
- Rezound (Linux soundfile editor)
Sweep
- Sweep (Linux soundfile editor)
snd
- snd (Linux soundfile editor)
FLAC
LAME
Plug-Ins
Kontakt
Waves
JACK
- JACK Audio Connection Kit
LADSPA
- LADSPA (Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API)
Jack-Rack
- JACK-Rack effects "rack" for JACK; poorly documented; see also the discussions of JACK-Rack and Rakarrack
Freqtweak
- Freqtweak FFT-based realtime audio spectral manipulation tool
JAMin
- JAMin JACK audio mastering interface
Rackarrack
- Rakarrack "guitar" effects processor, somewhat like the GT-3 in the ECMC MIDI studio
Audio Synthesis Tools
Reaktor
Analysis and Resynthesis
Audiosculpt
OpenMusic
SoundHack
- SoundHack (Mac)
- 0.888 Manual
Mammut
Programming Environments
Csound
- Official Site
- Csound 6 Manual
- Csound Tutorial, by Allan Schindler
- 3df and 3dm Ambisonic Processing Modules, by Allan Schindler
- PostScript (.eps) Displays of "movefuncs" used by the 3dm module
- Score11 Reference Manual (Linux score preprocessor)
- nGen Manual (cross-platform score preprocessor)
SuperCollider
- SuperCollider Website
- The SuperCollider Book
- SuperCollider IDE Documentation on Supercollider IDE language interpreter (introduced in SC version 3.6)
- Quick Introduction to SuperCollider by Graham Gatheral
- A Practical Guide to Patterns by H. James Harkins
- SC2 Code Examples, Group 1
- Fedora Documentation on installing and using SuperCollider
- Server Tutorial for SuperCollider 3
- GitHub Page with links to downloads, docs, news, and a few examples
- Links to Tutorials
- SuperCollider Code Help Search
- Daniel Nouri Help files
PVC
- PVC Documentation (Linux users should use this version)
- Paul Koonce's Documentation (Linux version)
- PVCX Documentation (Mac OSX, but universal and Intel binaries are not available)
Max MSP | Jitter
PureData
- Pd Website
- Documentation and Tutorials
- Miller Puckette's Website
- Documentation
- Complete lists of Pd objects from Garry Scavone and Floss.
- Example Patches from Andy Farnell's Designing Sound
- Floss Manual
Spatialization
Ambisonics
- Ambisonic Website (contains many helpful links)
- Ambisonic Spherical Harmonics images
- Wikipedia Page
Misc.
Organizations/Institutions
- Audium, San Francisco
- Allosphere, Santa Barbara
- Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre
- Centre de Musique Electroacoustique, Geneva
- Computational Arts, York University, York (CA)
- Computer Technologies Program, University of Virginia
- CMMAS, Michoacan, Mexico
- DEGEM, Germany
- Europeana Sounds
- Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Experimentalstudio des SWR, Freiburg
- Foundation Destellos, Mar del Plata
- fmsbw, Hannover
- GMEA, Albi
- GRAME, Lyon
- INA/GRM Paris
- Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik - IEM, Graz
- Ircam, Paris
- musicainformatica - Computer Music Resources
- ZKM Institut für Musik und Akustik, Karlsruhe