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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
  • 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
    • Mauro Lanza in studio
    • Chloé Thévenin in studio
    • Oren Boneh in studio
    • Tristan Murail in studio
    • Martin Matalon in studio
    • Sébastien Gaxie in studio
    • Murcof in the studio
    • Vimala Pons in studio
    • Lucie Antunes in studio
    • Deena Abdelwahed in the studio
    • Music-Fictions
    • Artistic Research Residency
    • Artistic Residencies: The Blog
    • Rendez Vous 24.25
    • 2024-2025
    • Replay Concerts
    • Seasons from 1996 to present
    • ManiFeste-2024 Website
    • ManiFeste festival from 2012 to 2024
    • 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.

    • Training Courses
    • Training Courses 2025.26
    • Max, Max for Live
    • Computer-Assisted Composition
    • ASAP & Partiels
    • Sound spatialization
    • Generative AI
    • Practical Information
    • Higher Education
    • Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music
    • Master ATIAM
    • Sound Design Master's Program
    • Mixed-Music
    • AIMove Master
    • Discover Research at IRCAM
    • Cultural Outreach
    • Cultural Mediation at Middle School Students
    • Médiations culturelles au lycée
    • Digital Workshops
    • TACT
    • Images of a Work Collection
    • Group Tours
    • ManiFeste-2025 Festival Academy
    • 2025 ÉLAN award
    • Spatial Composition Workshop
    • In Situ Polytopes
    • ULYSSES Ensemble
    • Auditors
  • Innovations

    Engaged with societal and economic issues at the intersection of culture and IT, research at Ircam has forged a reputation for itself in the world of international research as an interdisciplinary benchmark in the science and technology of sound and music, constantly attentive to the new needs and uses in society.

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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 object audio contents. The object format follows the audio definition model (ADM) defined by international standardization bodies (European Broadcast Union and International Telecommunication Union).
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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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    ASAP

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    ASAP is a set of audio plug-ins that allows creatively transforming sound. You are invited to play with the sound representation and the synthesis parameters to generate new sounds. The plug-ins can also be used to correct the defaults of the sound and to improve audio rendering. Thanks to the ARA2 integration, the spectral transformations are int…
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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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    Dyci2

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    DYCI2 is a library of generative agents for musical performance and interaction combining free, planned and reactive approaches to corpus-based generation, as well as short-term dynamic scenario models ("meta-Djing").
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    IRCAM Lab TS

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    TS is a standalone software application for sound transformation and time stretching that uses SuperVP and elements of the AudioSculpt 3 interface.
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    Max

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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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    Melodic Scale

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    Melodic Scale is a Max For Live device that automatically modifies a melodic line in real time, by changing its scale, mode or temperament. In the studio or on stage, Melodic Scale allows singers to correct the pitch and change the vibrato of their voice, but also to sing in unusual modes and temperaments. Based on SuperVP technology, Melodic Scal…
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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

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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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    OMax & co

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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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    Orchid*

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    IRCAM’s computer-assisted orchestration software, proposes instrumental mixtures as a solution to an orchestration problem consisting of imitating an acoustic target as perceptually as possible. Orchid* is divided into three instances of Orchids developed within the team: Orchidee, Orchids and Orchidea.
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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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    OSCar

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    OSCar is a plugin that makes it possible to send and receive the automation parameters of a digital audio workstation towards or from other 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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    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 is a digital audio file analysis application for signal processing researchers, musicologists, composers, sound designers, etc., offering a dynamic interface for exploring the content and characteristics of sounds.
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    RAVE

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    RAVE is an audio processing/generativity based on deep learning. RAVE (Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder) is a learning framework for generating a neural network model from audio data. RAVE allowing both fast and high-quality audio waveform synthesis (20x real-time at 48 kHz sampling rate on standard CPU). In Max and Pd, it is accompanied by …
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    SkataRT

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    Tools for sketching music composition and sound design. Sketching is a crucial step in both composition and design activities. The SkataRT environment explores the ability of voice and gesture to transpose the "paper/pencil" paradigm widely used in visual creation.
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    Somax 2

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    Somax 2 is an application for improvisation and music composition. It is implemented in Max and is based on a generative model using a process similar to concatenative synthesis to provide a stylistically consistent improvisation, while listening and adapting to a musician (or any other type of audio or MIDI source) in real-time.
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    Spat~

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    Spat~ is a library dedicated to real-time sound spatialization. Originally designed as a library, it enables musicians and sound engineers to control the spatial sound processing for various sound rendering systems.
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    Speak

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    The SpeaK tool is an interface that presents a sound lexicon. The semantic descriptors of the lexicon are organized according to three main classes: timbre (dry/resonant, dull/shiny, smooth/rough, warm, round, rich, nasal, ...), general qualities (low/high, tonal/noisy, near/far, ...), and morphology (attack, fall, continuous/discontinuous...).
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    Gesture and Temporal shape following

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    Several Max objects are available to follow temporal morphologies from Markov models. The voicefollower~ object shows in real-time the temporal progression of a performance in comparison with an audio recording. This enables the synchronization of a number of sonorous or visual processes with a pre-recorded text.
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    SuperVP, TRaX and Libraries

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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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    The Snail-Absolute Tuning

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    The Snail-Absolute Tuning is a frequency analyzer based on an original chromatic alignment representation. Compared to conventional analyzers, this representation provides a simple visualization of the active zones through light activation and organizes the arrangement of frequencies by notes on a tempered scale, tuned to a tuning fork.
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    Virtual Choir

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    Virtual Choir is a Max for Live device, which creates a choir effect in real time, harmonizing the voice on different musical scales.
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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 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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