CDP Workshops CD-1: About The Worksheets
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ricardo_thomasiComposers' Desktop Project and HITHER GATE MUSIC present
CDP Workshops CD-1
9 CDP Study Worksheets
by Archer Endrich
This CD contains Worksheets designed for users new to the CDP software, along with all sound examples, with links from the HTML documentation.
About the Worksheets
This package should speed up the learning curve for the CDP software and help
new users to achieve effective results more quickly.
Workshops CD-1 has 179 tracks with only 3-4 source sounds used to
make many different sound transformations. These can be played in order
using a Media Player to listen to the examples one after another and compare the tonal differences. This in itself can provide a very useful overview
of the CDP software as well as tune the ear to fine tonal variations.
The deeper aim of the Worksheets is to give clear, precise and step-bystep instructions on how to create these examples via either the Soundshaper or the Sound Loom GUI (or the Command Line/Terminal). They
therefore guide you through the process of accessing and using a great
number of the CDP functions.
The examples are mostly simple and direct, in order to be precise and
avoid confusion. However, there are also a few that involve sequences of
operations, so that the real shaping power of the CDP software is revealed.
The following illustration is from Worksheet 2 on filtering sounds. It
guides you through the 6 modes of FILTER BANK. Note that 'SS' stands
for Soundshaper and 'SL' for Sound Loom these lines are telling you how
to access the function in these GUIs, as the naming conventions sometimes differ. On the Command Line, the name is as in the title, in this
case, 'FILTER BANK'.
The output filenames below may look strange. Some prefer to describe
the sound itself. Here I use shorthand codes in order to enable the
filename itself to reveal where it came from. In this case trcdtfbm1.wav
can be read as 'trcdt' (name of the input soundfile), 'fb' (Filter Bank),
'm1' (Mode 1). 'Trcdt' itself is a code. The source was a tractor engine
sound ('tr') that was CUT ('c') to the desired length and DOVETAILED
CDP Workshops CD-1, p1
('dt'). Thus the name is very instructive, even if unpronounceable! I read
it to myself as letter groups: 'tr-c-dt-fb-m1'.
C. FILTER BANK - 6 specialised functions
(SS: Soundfiles > Filter > Bank)
(SL: FILTER > variable > bank)
( D-F = Double-Filtering)
ST5. Mode 1: Filter the harmonic series over a low frequency
infile outfile
Q
Gain
Lofreq Hifreq otherparam
trcdt
trcdtfbm1.wav
150
5
50
10000
-
D-F
ON
ST6. Mode 2: Filter alternate harmonics over a low frequency
infile outfile
Q
Gain
Lofreq Hifreq otherparam
trcdt
trcdtfbm2.wav
150
5
50
10000
-
D-F
ON
ST7. Mode 3: Filter the subharmonic series below a high frequency
infile outfile
Q
Gain
Lofreq Hifreq otherparam
trcdt
trcdtfbm3.wav
50
5
50
10000
-
D-F
ON
ST8: Mode 4: Filter the harmonic series, specifying a linear offset
infile outfile
Q
Gain
Lofreq Hifreq otherparam
D-F
trcdt
trcdtfbm4.wav
100
5
50
10000
796 (offset)
ON
ST9: Mode 5: Filter with equal intervals, specifying
infile outfile
Q
Gain
Lofreq Hifreq
trcdt
trcdtfbm5a.wav
150
5
50
10000
trcdt
trcdtfbm5b.wav
100
5
50
10000
number of filters
otherparam
D-F
1000(numfilters)ON
100
ON
ST10. Mode 6: Filter with equal intervals, specifying interval size in
semitones (harmonises!)
infile outfile
Q
Gain
Lofreq Hifreq otherparam
D-F
trcdt
trcdtfbm6a.wav
50
5
50
10000
3(semitonesize) ON
trcdt
trcdtfbm6b.wav
25
5
50
10000
12
ON
trcdt
trcdtfbm6c.wav
25
5
50
10000
7
ON
trcdt
trcdtfbm6d.wav
25
5
50
10000
6
ON
The CD is a data (not an audio) CD. It includes:
.doc copies of the Worksheets themselves (in Word for Windows .doc format)
All the source sounds in .wav format. These source sounds can be converted to .aiff for use on the Mac. Everything is kept as .wav here so that
the Media Player doesn't mix things up out of sequence.
Any text or breakpoint files used for a particular example.
2 Play Lists for all the sounds created in the various examples, one for
Worksheets 1-5 and one for Worksheets 6-9. When put into the computer,
the resident sound player (such as Media Player) will play through all the
examples in order (they have special prefixes designed to ensure this).
Each Play List has its own document that lists all the sounds with a brief
description of how they were made so that you can follow along as you
listen to the sounds. Individual sounds can also be selected for playback
or copied to your hard disk for further transformations.
This CD is sent out with a printed copy of the 9 Worksheets and Play
Lists to make getting started and using the Workshop as easy as possible.
CDP Workshops CD-1, p2
The 9 Worksheet Topics
PITCH transpositions, glissandi, pitch shifting, distortion involving pitch,
ring-modulation
FILTER high and low-pass, band pass, notch, filter banks with various
presets, phasing, iterated and sweeping
ROUGHEN-LENGTHEN distortion repetition, step-through looping,
scramble, brassage, texture and (PC only) GrainMill
TUNE user-defined filterbanks, texture with harmonic grids, spectral
tuning
TIME these are mainly concerned with freeze, hold and step-freeze
techniques, but spectral time-stretching is also included
TEXTURE here we have a number of very precise operations to form a
basic introduction to the key functions of TEXTURE SIMPLE
TRANSFERS this is about envelope replacement in the Time and Spectral Domains, including 'cross-synthesis' (referred to as 'vocoding' in the
CDP software)
TRANSITION cross-fades in the Time and Spectral Domains provide
comparison with morphing
SPEECH 47 alterations of a vocal sound; the changes are usually minimal: to illustrate a very controlled use of sound processing, the ear being
very sensitive to alterations in vocal tone
Last updated: 7 June 2006
2006 Composers' Desktop Project, Chippenham, Wiltshire England
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