The online supplement for Automated Sound Design

This supplement contains soundfiles and code examples from my book Automated Sound Design (A-R Editions, 2022). The book is available for purchase from A-R Editions, under their Computer Music and Digital Audio Imprint: https://www.areditions.com/lyon-automated-sound-design-das028.html

All of the code in this supplement is free for you to use under the MIT License, as stated below:

Copyright 2022 Eric Lyon.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

You are welcome to use this code whether or not you purchase the book.

Here is an abbreviated Table of Contents:

Preface

1. Tweaking and Randomness

2. Additive Synthesis I: Harmonic Spectra

3. Additive Synthesis II: Inharmonicity and Polyphony

4. Additive Synthesis III: Ambient Textures

5. Additive Synthesis IV: Analysis-Transformation-Synthesis

6. Frequency Modulation I: Direct Synthesis

7. Frequency Modulation II: Parametric Control

8. Automated Drum Machines I: A Max Project

9. Automated Drum Machines II: A SuperCollider Project

10. Aggregate Processors in Max

11. Too Many Notes: Black MIDI

12. Audio Processing in the Web Browser

Afterword

Annotated Bibliography

Index

Here is the full TOC with a few sample pages from the book.

This book represents decades of research into automated sound design techniques and their compositional applications. Despite the familiar topics, I believe that readers will find a different approach to sound design than they may be familiar with. Once the central concept of the book has been grasped, and the necessary skills acquired, there are endless other sound design techniques that could be treated similarly. As I suggest in the Afterword, these techniques might also lend themselves to machine learning approaches, an idea that I look forward to investigating in the next phase of this research.

For those of you who just want to make some cool sounds, the software found within this supplement may provide you with a few new tools and ideas.

Eric Lyon
ericlyon@vt.edu
Blacksburg, Virginia
December 16, 2022