The CDP Release 4 System has at its core 5 software packages which focus on shaping sonic material in every conceivable way, with great attention to detail, flexibility in parameter options, and great scope for time-varying changes. Trevor Wishart's unique waveset distortion techniques. Also contains a powerful set of tools for reorganising the 'grains' in grainy sounds and otherwise jumbling sounds by various segmentation techniques. They are based on analysis files created by the phase vocoder, which converts a soundfile into a series of analysis 'frames' containing amplitude and frequency data, which can then be manipulated independently.
Most parameters can be time-varying.
This first set of utilities deals with time-domain functions, i.e., dealing with or gathering information about soundfiles, creating and manipulating envelopes, mixing soundfiles, and creating test signals. A very broad range of envelope manipulations form a major part of this package. Back to Information Topics. A DEMO is available for free download . The PLAY program now handles multi-channel soundfiles.