The Musicians' Software Mall A Set of Composition and Performance Oriented Applications for Sound Synthesis

Abstract

The Musicians' Software Mall is a software package developed to provide powerful composition and performance tools to the computer musician. At this stage it contains the following applications: SmsTools 2.0, a set of tools for Spectral Modeling Synthesis analysis of sound files; SmsPerformer 2.0, a graphical interface for the real-time SMS synthesis engine; Music Maker 2.0, an application for composing, generating, editing and synthesizing either SMS or CSound score files; Drizzle 2.0, a graphical interface for controlling real-time granular synthesis. In this article we concentrate in two of these applications: SmsPerformer and Music Maker.