Digital Synthesis

Digital Synthesis Workshop

Digital Synthesis is a form of electronic music that uses software algorithms to generate, control or modify sound. There are a number of software platforms which follow a historical timeline, which in turn originate from early analog/modular synthesis techniques.

An important distinction between digital synthesis and sound software in general is the sound creation process. Digital synthesis functions more like a contemporary analog modular rig, but modeled inside a computer, controlled by a programming language and without physical space constraints. this is not a workshop on plugins, softsynths for logic or ableton, or anything about multitrack recording/DAW. There is already a good Ableton workshop every Tuesday held by a group of working music producers.

I'm particularly interested in the class of digital synthesis that originated from the SuperCollider platform, released in 1996, open sourced in 2002 and currently under active development. There are many projects using the supercollider engine as the basis for new languages, platforms and performance environments. Let's talk about them!

Contact me via my user page --SteeleNivenson (talk) 19:02, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Date TBD, I've joined the sound-hacks list but it looks pretty quiet.