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    The fundamental principle of IRCAM is to encourage productive interaction among scientific research, technological developments, and contemporary music production. Since its establishment in 1977, this initiative has provided the foundation for the institute’s activities. One of the major issues is the importance of contributing to the renewal of musical expression through science and technology. Conversely, sp…

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    IRCAM is an internationally recognized research center dedicated to creating new technologies for music. The institute offers a unique experimental environment where composers strive to enlarge their musical experience through the concepts expressed in new technologies.

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  • Research

    The fundamental principle of IRCAM is to encourage productive interaction among scientific research, technological developments, and contemporary music production. Since its establishment in 1977, this initiative has provided the foundation for the institute’s activities. One of the major issues is the importance of contributing to the renewal of musical expression through science and technology. Conversely, sp…

    • Research Topics
    • The STMS Lab
    • Research Teams
    • Sound Systems and Signals: Audio/Acoustics, InstruMents
    • Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces
    • Sound Perception and Design
    • Sound Analysis-Synthesis
    • Sound Music Movement Interaction
    • Musical Representations
    • Analysis of Musical Practices
    • Projects
    • Sound Workshop
    • The Musical Body
    • Creative Dynamics
    • Finished Projects
    • Musique/Sciences Collection
  • Creation

    IRCAM is an internationally recognized research center dedicated to creating new technologies for music. The institute offers a unique experimental environment where composers strive to enlarge their musical experience through the concepts expressed in new technologies.

    • Composers & Artists in Studio
    • "I am in blood" for Sixteen Musicians and Live Electronics
    • Lucie Antunes in studio
    • Deena Abdelwahed in the studio
    • "Transfer" for 10 Musicians and Electronics
    • L'Annonce faite à Marie
    • In Ex Machina
    • Jazz Ex Machina
    • Improvise cum machina 1/2
    • Improvise cum machina 2/2
    • Like Sound, Like Flesh
    • Silent Talks
    • Music-Fictions
    • Artistic Research Residency
    • Artistic Residencies: The Blog
    • Rendez Vous 20.21
    • Season 2022.23
    • Seasons from 1996 to present
    • ManiFeste-2022 Website
    • ManiFeste festival from 2012 to 2022
    • L’Étincelle, IRCAM’s journal of creation
  • Transmission

    In support of IRCAM's research and creation missions, the educational program seeks to shed light on the current and future meaning of the interactions among the arts, sciences, and technology as well as sharing its models of knowledge, know-how, and innovations with the widest possible audience.

    • 2022.23 Training Courses
    • Max, Max for Live
    • OpenMusic
    • Modalys
    • TS2 and Partiels
    • Sound spatialization
    • From PureData to audio plugins
    • Sensors, Interfaces, and Interactive Machine Learning
    • Other training programs
    • Practical Information
    • Advanced Programs
    • Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music
    • Supersonic Chair
    • Master ATIAM
    • Sound Design Master's Program
    • Music Doctorate
    • AIMove Master
    • School Programs
    • Studios of Creation
    • Mixed-Music
    • Artistic and Cultural Education
    • Career Discovery Visit
    • Images of a Work Collection
    • ManiFeste-2022, the Academy
  • Innovations

    At the center of societal and economic concerns combining culture and information technologies, the current research at IRCAM is seen by the international research community as a reference for interdisciplinary projects on the sciences and technologies for sound and music, constantly exposed to society’s new needs and uses.

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    Analysis/Synthesis

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    Analysis/Synthesis Command-line Tools is a set of low-level command line tools from Analysis/Synthesis Research Team at Ircam. This package is already included in the AudioSculpt software and isn''t incompatible with macOS Catalina.
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    ADMix Tools

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    The ADMix tool suite can be used for recording (ADMix Recorder) and reproduction (ADMix Renderer) of objectbased audio contents. The object-based format follows the audio definition model (ADM) defined by international standardization bodies (European Broadcast Union and International Telecommunication Union).
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    Angus

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    Highly realistic simulation of vocal arousal with amplitude modulation. ANGUS is a real-time voice transformation tool able to simulate cues of arousal/roughness on arbitrary voice signals with a high degree of realism. Vocal roughness is generated by highly unstable modes of vibration in the vocal folds and tract.
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    Antescofo

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    Antescofo is a modular score following system as well as a synchronous programming language for musical composition. The module allows for automatic recognition of the player’s position and tempo in a musical score from a realtime audio stream coming from a performer, thus making it possible to synchronize an instrumental performance with computer…
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    AudioSculpt

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    AudioSculpt uses a graphical approach to “sculpt” (to modify) a sound file. After a phase of analysis, the user modifies the analysis’ result directly, using only a mouse to apply the desired changes to the sound. Several types of analysis of the spectral content are shown and the user can modify the sound several different ways.
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    CataRT Standalone

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    Concatenative corpus-based synthesis makes use of a database of recorded sounds and an algorithm for the selection of units that makes it possible to choose the segments of the database in order to synthesize by concatenation a musical sequence. The selection is based on the characteristics of the recording that are obtained by an analysis of the …
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    CLEESE

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    CLEESE (Combinatorial Expressive Speech Engine) is a tool designed to generate an infinite number of natural-sounding, expressive variations around an original speech recording. More precisely, CLEESE creates random fluctuations around the file’s original contour of pitch, loudness, timbre and speed (i.e. roughly defined, its prosody).
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    CoMo Elements

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    Mobile webapp to create collectively sound-movement interaction. CoMo can be seen as a distributed and interactive machine learning system, using web technologies. The client side allows for recording gestures, recognition, and plays related sounds. The server side performs the training and stores the statistical models.
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    DAVID

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    Real-time emotional voices with DAVID (Da Amazing Voice Inflection Device) DAVID is a free, real-time voice transformation tool able to “colour” any voice recording with an emotion that wasn’t intended by it’s speaker. DAVID has been fully tested with Max8, Max7, and also supports Max6.
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    Forum Max Apps

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    The Forum Max Apps are collections of Max6 applications that allows rapid use of audio technologies in Max. Technologies addressed in the package include: Spat, Modalys for Max, SuperVP for Max, Max Sound Box and Omax
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    Gesture & Sound

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    Two max objects that let you follow temporal morphologies based on Markov models. Software modules for gesture-sound interactions The VoiceFollower allows synchronisation of sound and visual processes with pre-recorded voice. The MotionFollower allows synchronisation of sound and visual processes with pre-recorded movement.
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    ISiS

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    The ISiS software is a command line application for singing synthesis that can be used to generate singing signals by means of synthesizing them from melody and lyrics. The ISiS software is the result of the French national project ChaNTeR.
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    Max Sound Box

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    A collection of Max externals with help files and examples for real-time interactions including tools for real-time analysis, transformations and synthesis of sound. Max Sound Box technologies are completed by Forum Max Apps providing tutorials and ready-to-use modules.
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    Modalys

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    Modalys is an environment that lets users create unheard of virtual instruments based on simple physical objects such as strings, plates, tubes, membranes, plectrum, bows, or hammers, and making them interact. It is possible to construct objects with complex forms using a threedimensional mesh or resulting from measurements.
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    MuBu for Max

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    MuBu (for “multi-buffer) is a set of modules for real-time multimodal signal processing (audio and movement), automatic learning, and sound synthesis via descriptors. Using the multimodal MuBu container users can store, edit, and visualize different types of temporally synchronized channels.
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    Najo Modular Interface

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    Najo Modular Interface offers easy access to many of the processing techniques developed at IRCAM without having to be an expert in Max. Its highly intuitive graphical interface makes it possible to assemble several audio modules and facilitates their control via external devices (e.g. MIDI, graphical tablet, joystick, etc.).
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    Panoramix

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    Panoramix is a post-production workstation for 3D-audio contents. This tool offers a comprehensive environment for mixing, reverberating, and spatializing sound materials from different microphone systems: main tree, spot microphones, Higher Order Ambisonics capture.
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    Partiels

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    Partiels software is sold exclusively as part of the annual individual Premium subscription.  As a Premium Forum member, you will also gain access to AudioSculpt, CataRT Standalone, Panoramix, Orchids, and SuperVP for Trax. Click here to sign up for your institutional Premium subscription. If not, continue your purchase by adding your subscri…
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    OM-Chant

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    OM-Chant is an OpenMusic library for the control primitives for Chant sound synthesis module using FOFs and vocal simulations.. The Chant synthesiser allows to simulate and reproduce sung voice sounds, but also to create more abstract sounds using the FOF synthesis technique.
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    OM-pm2

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    The OM-pm2 library allows to perform additive analysis and extract the partials from audio files using the pm2 sound processing kernel. It also performs the "chord-seq" analysis, which extracts the main partial as chords with given time intervals.
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    OM-Spat

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    OM-Spat is a library for the creation and rendering of spatial scenes in OpenMusic. The scenes are represented as matrix-like objects associating sound sources and spatial trajectories. OM-Spat implements a storage of the source trajectories and spatial attributes using the SDIF format.
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    OM-SuperVP

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    OpenMusic connection with IRCAM SuperVP signal processing kernel. The OM-SuperVP tools are organized in three main categories : analysis, processing, and synthesis.
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    Orchids

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    Orchids/Éric is the first complete system for temporal computer-assisted orchestration and timbral mixture optimization. It provides a set of algorithms and features to reconstruct any time-evolving target sound with a combination of acoustic instruments, given a set of psychoacoustic criteria.
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    OpenMusic

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    OpenMusic is a visual programming environment for creating computer aided composition applications. OpenMusic offers users the possibility of graphical construction for processing procedures or generation of musical data with the assistance of numerous graphical modules and predefined functions, assembled in visual programs.
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    Spat

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    Spat~ is a library dedicated to sound spatialization in realtime. Originally designed as a library, it enables musicians and sound engineers to control the spatial sound processing for various sound broadcasting systems. Applications range from reproducing sound in a home setting to concert situations to holophonic and interactive sound installati…
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    SuperVP for Max

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    SuperVP is a phase vocodeur for Max. The SuperVP Max externals are based on the same advanced phase vocoder engine as the analysis/synthesis functionalities of AudioSculpt, providing high-quality sound processing in real-time. A first set of externals gives access to time-stretching, pitch transposition, spectral envelope transformations, and sou…
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    SuperVP Trax

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    SuperVP is a signal-processing library that is based on an implementation of a sophisticated phase vocoder algorithm. The library can be used to perform a large number of signal transformations with outstanding sound quality and provides access to an extensive set of parameters that offer complete and fine grained control over the different algori…
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    ToscA

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    ToscA is a plugin that makes it possible to send and receive the automation parameters of a digital audio workstation towards or from other applications applications using the OSC protocol. Its application typically concerns the production of object-oriented spatialized mixes independently of the host software constraints.
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    OMax

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    Omax is an environment for improvisation with a computer that analyzes, models, and re-improvises in real-time the performance of one or several musicians, in audio or in MIDI formats. OMax is based on a computer model called “Oracle Factors”, a graph that connects all the motives, from smallest to biggest.
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    Les collections logiciels

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    Ircam Piano préparé

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    Ircam Piano préparé by UVI
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    IRCAM Solo instruments 2

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    Featuring over 550 different playing styles performed by professional instrumentalists, IRCAM Solo Instruments 2 presents a vivid and detailed exposé of 16 orchestral instruments. Each instrument includes both standard playing styles and numerous advanced and experimental articulations.
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    Ircam Lab TS2

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    Developed at IRCAM, the collection Ircam Lab in partenership with Plugivery, offers two products including TS2 that lets users transpose or stretch an audio signal with an unequaled quality. TS2 uses an advanced phase vocoder engine, SuperVP, as well as the analysis and synthesis functionalities of AudioSculpt software, providing high-quality soun…
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    Ircam Lab The Snail

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    The Snail-Absolute Tuning is a sound frequency analyzer that uses an inventive representation with chromatic alignment. Compared to standard analyzers, this representation makes it possible to easily visualize active zones with light (like on a spectrogram) and to organize frequencies by note on a tempered scale, in tune with a diapason.
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    Ircam Trax v3 by Flux::

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    A suite of three ingenious processors using pioneering technology developed during the last decades by the sound analysis/synthesis team at IRCAM, with innovative signal transformation algorithms for altering sound characteristics such as; pitch, spectral timbre and duration to manipulate properties of a voice such as gender, age and breath.
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    Ircam HEar v3 by Flux::

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    Ircam HEar provides faithful reproduction of a stereo mix or a full surround mix with up to ten channels, supporting Dolby Atmos , with a pair of conventional stereo headphones. It relies on proven technology to model the various phenomena that occur when playing back audio material through a loudspeaker system.
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    Ircam Verb v3 by Flux::

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    Following a decade of intense research by the Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces Team at IRCAM, the Ircam Verb v3 introduce state of the art techniques for room acoustics simulation utilizing advanced perceptive models, concealing the complexity behind the actual reverb algorithms, all in order to provide an intuitive experience for the user.
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    Ircam Verb Session v3 by Flux::

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    VERB Session v3, based on the same fine technology used in the acclaimed IRCAM Verb v3, is tailored for simplicity providing a fast paced workflow for achieving the perfect result instantly. VERB Session v3 presents the ultimate reverb solution whether you are a seasoned session engineer or a demanding broadcast and post-production mixer.
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    Max 8

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    Max is a visual programming environment for building real-time musical and interactive applications. Max is a bundling of Max (IRCAM/Cycling ‘74) for real-time control of interactive musical and multimedia applications through MIDI, of MSP, a large set of objects for real- time analysis, synthesis, and processing of audio signals, and of Jitter.
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