From PureData to audio plugins
The main tools of the audio production chain, focus, still today, on techniques stemming from a tradition which is based, almost completely, on the standards defined by the industry of the pop music production. This has lead the developers and the software companies on focusing mainly on those algorithms and tools able to fortify this tradition rather than offering to composers and musicians new tools for the exploration of sound processing and sound synthesis. Therefore, designing new sounds or new approaches concerning the production chain means relevant efforts, by the musicians, in order to finalize their projects as, for instance, the request of continuous exportation and rearrangement of files and formats.
There are interesting research projects emerging in this scenario, in which the attempt to an integration of the tools and the languages opens to a simplification of the creational process. In fact, the open source approach, has permitted to embed softwares like PureData within a wide range of contexts. This is the case of the project Camomile, which allows the users to remain within the software paradigm they are familiar with, like PureData in this case, and to use the code they have developed inside their preferred Digital Audio Workstation. It is sufficient to develop some skills in PureData programming in order to access features like plugin for audio processing or a virtual instrument.
This training program will be held at IRCAM on-site in accordance with local sanitary guidelines and measures in place at the current time. These guidelines and measures may change. In the event that IRCAM cannot physically welcome students for a program that requires face-to-face instruction, the program will be cancelled.
