Oficina Granular: a tool for composing with granular synthesis

Carlos Eduardo Mello

Depto de Música
Universidade de Brasília

Abstract:

This article describes a software project called Oficina Granular (OG). OG attempts to provide composers with an intuitive software interface for creating and assembling granular sound masses into a complete musical composition. Studies and software implementation of granular synthesis tend to concentrate on grain generation. OG uses a simple grain implementation and focuses on higher level manipulation of sound masses. The main libraries for OG were written in standard C++. The Graphical Interface was planned for Mac OS X and is currently under development.

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