here's a quick list of what most (if not all) of your current 'tweaky'
IDM groups are using and abusing...
MAX
MSP
SuperCollider
PD
LiSa
Kyma
CDP
Metasynth
SFX
i used to have an asr-10 as well, but i'm doubting autechre uses it to
do any granular synthesis or heavy signal processing. (probably using
the asr-10 to trigger samples of stuff they mangled on the computer)
MSP seems to be one of the programs of choice, but PD is free. (doesn't
work on a Mac yet...) Kyma is incredible, it's just so fucking
expensive...
as for metasynth, richard james managed to exploit that program fairly
well. i believe ae used supercollider A LOT on ep7. (supercollider
kicks ass btw... hard as shit to program though.) cdp runs on windows
(and unix i believe) machines...
not too sure if michael fakesch has went the route of computer based
DSP, but his new album (has this been reviewed yet? very nice...)
sounds like MSP or supercollider might have been involved. (although
funkstorung pulled some pretty cool stuff off in concert with an alesis
wedge and some nord gear... no computers whatsoever)
there's also pluggo. if you download the demo and check out the
credits, kit clayton (sp?) is mentioned as one of the key developers.
kinda cool...
oh yeah, hyperprism is used a lot as well. (along with peak and spark)
as for groups writing their own code, that's bullshit. there might be a
few (jake mandell supposedly programs some wicked MSP patches and oswald
from farmers manual seems to be a PD / Unix wizard) but most groups are
just tweaking some presets. that's not to say this is easy, just a bit
misleading. (pointing and clicking is WAY different then writing in c++
or some version of smalltalk) the MEGO crew seems to be pretty swift
with software apps...
if you have a windows or unix / linux machine, download pd. it'll
probably give you a headache if you have no programming experience, but
it seems to be a pretty wicked program. (i'm a mac user, so i only get
to hear about it)
Common Music is really interesting as well. (free, but also a pain in
the ass to program)
read about Max Mathews if you're interested in the history and
development of the MusicN languages. (he came up with the idea of unit
generators) Miller Puckette is another 'pioneer' of object oriented DSP
software. (he wrote PD and ported MAX to the macintosh platform) super
props to james mccartney and company.
SuperCollider forever (no relation to the group...)
cheers,
christian
: or you can try Csound if you're really brave...
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