real-time audio-processing software

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What's the best software to use for doing real-time audio-processing stuff - you know, like delay, flange, granulator, etc.? Does anyone know what kind of stuff Fennesz and Hrvatski and those guys use?

One share-ware app that looks kind of interesting is AudioMulch:

http://www.audiomulch.com/info.htm

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

C'mon, I know some of you ILMers do this kind of stuff... Are people reluctant to divulge the tricks o' the trade or what?

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I use Audiomulch. I like it a lot. What I tend to do is process sounds through it (using the onboard processors and/or any of the dozens of VST plug-ins I've downloaded) then export the processed sound to Cooledit or record it into my sampler. You can do a lot more with Audiomulch - automation of effects changes over time etc. - but I haven't got round to investigating that side of it.

― David (David), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Cool - I'm going to download it and check it out.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a very informative/friendly/helpful Yahoo group devoted to it as well.

― David (David), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

what about SoundForge? i still swear by it - but maybe its time i moved on

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought SoundForge was more of a multi-track recorder. I'm thinking more of real-time signal processing stuff.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

SoundForge is a simple wave editor made by Sonic Foundry. Vegas (now Vegas Video) is their tracker, now with video capabilities as the name suggests. Soundforge cannot run plugins in realtime, only in preview. So multiple fx are out of the question and you'd be going a bit around the houses.

Alberton Live might be a good bet, but I think the pimp choice would be Reaktor. It's audio mangling capabilities are second to none.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I did a little poking around on the web and found this Wired article. It mentions pretty much all the programs that have come up on this thread so far, except Audiomulch. Apparently, MAX/MSP, which unfortunately is only currently available on the Mac (though they plan a Windows port soon), is the granddaddy of the bunch. I also came across an open-source project called Pure-Data which looked interesting.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.05/laptop_pr.html

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:10 (twenty-three years ago)

fennesz and all that rhiz crew all use macs and mainly max/msp stuff and most probably supercollider and reaktor too..

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Quick list:

Max/MSP.

Reaktor

SuperCollider

Pure Data

jMax

These are the big ones.

― dsp wanker, Thursday, 20 February 2003 00:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to get into PD but its too much work. If only i could quit my day-job...then I'd actually have the time to build some really cool patches.

Max/msp, pd, supercollider, jMax, are pretty hardcore to use well. and it will take you a few months of seriuos patching before you get good results.

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Thursday, 20 February 2003 03:04 (twenty-three years ago)

The new version of Ableton Live is very very good.

― Dan I., Thursday, 20 February 2003 04:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Aye - you just need some samples - where do you get them?

― chris sallis, Thursday, 20 February 2003 09:01 (twenty-three years ago)

This maybe somewhat off-topic but if someone could explain in very very simple terms how to activate the markers (or whatever) in soundforge, so I can divide up home-made CDs into several tracks rather than one 80-minute continuous one, it would be grrrrrrreatsome.

― alexfack (alexfack), Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Ableton live is not much of a real time processing app, not much more than something like Cubase/Logic/Whatever are.

It's got a grain delay but that's about it if you want to sound like a laptop dsp wanker...

― dsp wanker (dsp wanker), Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

But it supports VST plug-ins doesn't it?

― David (David), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Max/msp, pd, supercollider, jMax, are pretty hardcore to use well. and it will take you a few months of seriuos patching before you get good results.

That's the good thing about Mulch. Although it's quite deep it works on the level of 'ooh...what would it sound like if I connect this to that?'. Doesn't need any synthesis or programming knowledge to get interesting results.

― David (David), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I downloaded AudioMulch last night (yay for free), and within half an hour I was getting some weird sounds out of it.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 20 February 2003 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

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