Documentation for ECMC Courses

• GENERAL
• CMP 225-226: Introduction to Computer Music
• CMP 421-422: Advanced Computer Music Techniques

GENERAL

• ECMC Sample Libraries (sflib and sflib96)

CMP 225-226: Introduction to Computer Music

• Audacity (cross-platform soundfile editor)
Manual and tutorials
Offical Website
• SoundHack (mac only)

(The two user forum sites below are more useful for advanced than for beginning users.)
• Native Instruments Kontakt user forum page
• Native Instruments Reaktor Manual
• Native Instruments Reaktor user forum page

• Logic Pro9 Users 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)

• Waves Gold Bundle

• Help and Documentation
  
• Official Website

• CDP: A Guided Tour
• About CDP GrainMill
• Soundshaper Manual
• Soundloom Graphical Data Entry
• CDP Website
• Older ECMC CDP page-- has some broken links, and some of the information here is no longer valid

CMP 421-422: Advanced Computer Music Techniques

• ECMC USERS' GUIDE
• SSH Documentation

• Allan Schindler's Eastman Csound Tutorial
• The Csound 5 Reference Manual, available online at
  • http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/index.html (HTML) (the official, most up-to-date frames version of the Csound reference manual)
  • http://www.ecmc.rochester.edu/ecmc/docs/csound-manual-5.14/index.html (HTML) (ECMC mirror, providing quicker access from ECMC systems, but possibly not the current version of the manual)
  • Older PDF version of the Csound 5 Reference Manual (may load slowly)
• ECMC Csound ambisonic processing modules 3df and 3dm
(Postscript displays of the "movefuncs" used by the 3dm module can be viewed here)

• Score11 (Linux Csound score preprocessor)
• nGen (cross-platform Csound score preprocessor)

• PVC (phase vocoder tools by Paul Koonce)
• ECMC PVC Documentation (ECMC Linux users should use this version)
• Paul Koonce's Documentation (Linux version)
• PVCX (Mac OSX version documentation, but universal and Intel binaries are not available)
• Ceres3 (analysis and resynthesis application)
• mammut help file

• Audacity (cross-platform multitrack soundfile editor)
Manual and tutorials | Official Website
• Rezound (Linux soundfile editor)
• Sweep (Linux soundfile editor)
• snd (Linux soundfile editor)

• Ardour 2 Home Page
• Ardour 2 manual
• Ardour 2 Basics
• Ardour 2 Tutorial by Ben Powers

• Pure Data
• Miller Puckette's PD website | Puckette's Pd Documentation
• Complete lists of Pd objects can be found here and here (annotated) and here.
• Pd Home Page
• Example Pd patches from Andy Farnell's Designing Sound: http://aspress.co.uk/sd/index.php
• SuperCollider 3
• Wilson, Cottle, Collins: The SuperCollider Book web page
  Code examples from The SuperCollider Book See the file ECMCReadme.html in this folder.
• Official SuperCollider Website
• David Cottle's Computer Music with examples in SuperCollider 3 (4MB pdf) [LOCAL LINK: access available only from ECMC studios]
• superCollider examples, group 1 : SuperCollider code examples

• LADSPA (Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API)
• Jack-Rack (effects "rack" for the JACK low latency audio API)
• Freqtweak (FFT-based realtime audio spectral manipulation tool)
• JAMin (Jack Audio Mastering Interface)

• Images of ambisonic spherical harmonics
• Ambisonic.net site (contains many helpful links)
• Wikipedia ambisonic page

• VIM
• Emacs

• FLAC (lossless audio encoder)
• LAME (.mp3 lossy encoder)