CDP Tutorials, Guides and Examples
Introduction to the CDP System
CDP Guide:
(You can download the CDP Guide, including a printable PDF version, from the Downloads page.)
Technical / Set-up
- Running the CDP System
– by Archer Endrich (revised and updated R.Fraser)
- The CDP system environment: setting up (now suprseded), basic concepts and using command lines.
- The Windows Command Prompt – by Archer Endrich (updated R.Fraser)
- Guide to the Windows command line interpreter (formerly called 'On Using MS-DOS')
- Using Terminal – by Richard Dobson
- Configuring OS X for command-line programs (pdf version)
- The Operation of the Phase Vocoder – by Richard Dobson
- A non-mathematical introduction to the Fast Fourier Transform
- Guide to EMACS – by Archer Endrich
- Key Functions of the microEMACS Text Editor
Introduction to the CDP Programs
- Get Started with CDP in
12 Steps – by Archer Endrich
- A beginner's introduction to CDP processes, using the Soundshaper and SoundLoom GUIs.
Contains background on creating a working environment, discussions of specific processes and sound examples. - A beginner's introduction to CDP processes, using the Soundshaper and SoundLoom GUIs.
- CDP-LITE – by Archer Endrich
- 45 basic CDP functions introduced on 2 levels.
- A Keyhole View of the CDP
System – by Archer Endrich (2005)
- Describes key areas of the CDP System up to Release 5, focussing on utilities and editing, plus some more far-reaching transformations.
- The Sound Loom Basic Guide (in pdf format) – by Archer Endrich
- Introduction to the basic operation of the Soundloom GUI, with worked examples in the Time and Spectral Domains
- The Sound Loom & CDP (in pdf format) – by Trevor Wishart
- A survey of the Sound Loom GUI, set in the context of practical compositional objectives.
Demo Examples
CDP Sound Design Illustrations - PC (in pdf format)CDP Sound Design Illustrations - MAC (in pdf format)
- Dice Demo
- Step-by-step illustration of how six fairly complex sounds have been created.
- CDP Tour Examples
- A brief tour of 9 categories of CDP processes, with explanations of how the results are achieved.
- Sound-Builder Templates
- Six examples of chained processing as run via batch files (Windows) or shell scripts (OS X).
You can hear the results of each step of the process before going on to your own experiments. - Six examples of chained processing as run via batch files (Windows) or shell scripts (OS X).
Downloadable Workshops
- CDP website page on Workshops 1-3 and the Learning Manual
- Introduction to the three Workshops and A Learning Manual with links for downloading
- About Tutorial Workshop 1 (pdf format)
- Workshop 1 is designed for new CDP users and shows how to use over 150 functions
- About Tutorial Workshop 2 (pdf format)
- Workshop 2: How to Compose with CDP Texture (21 examples)
- Workshop 2: How to Compose with CDP Texture (21 examples)
- About Tutorial Workshop 3 (pdf format)
- Workshop 3: Transposition, Shifting and (pitch trace) Combinations
- NEW: A Learning Manual for CDP, by Archer Endrich
- A detailed and practical introduction to the CDP software, with many sound examples.
33 documents cover most of the CDP processes from the point of view of composition objectives, with hints and tips. - A detailed and practical introduction to the CDP software, with many sound examples.
'Groucho' Time-Domain Processing
- A Drunk Tutorial – tutorial on EXTEND DRUNK by Archer Endrich, with 7 worked examples
- For TEXTURE, see Tutorial Workshop 2 How to Compose with CDP Texture by Archer Endrich.
GRAINMILL:
Three tutorials for Richard Dobson's granular manipulation program,
Grainmill (a graphic version of MODIFY BRASSAGE),
providing a variety of examples of granulation.
- A GrainMill
Tutorial – by Philippos Theocharidis
- Comprehensive introduction and tutorial for this powerful graphic program (PC systems only)
- GrainMill Examples
– by Richard Dobson
- Sixteen examples which illustrate very precise aural effects
- A Big One
– GrainMill example by Archer Endrich
- A vocal sound is expanded by timing breakpoint files to the syllables of the text.
General
- Introduction to Sound Design – by Archer Endrich
- A Study Guide for Workshops in Sound Design, referring to the work of some top film sound designers and discussing of 16 CDP techniques
- Computer Sound Transformation – by Trevor Wishart (2000)
- A personal perspective, outlining the development of computer techniques within CDP up to the year 2000. (pdf version)
- Sound Transformations in
Electroacoustic Music – by Leigh Landy (1991)
- Background, aesthetics and categories of transformation in electroacoustic music
Special Help for SoundLoom
- The Sound Loom – An Overview
- Graphical Data Entry
- Midi Data Entry
- Cleaning Kit
- Sustain a FOF
- Using the batchfile mechanism
- Using the Qikedit Mixfile Editor
- Table Editor
- Troubleshooting Guide
- Update information for version 13
Csound
- Getting Started with Csound I, II , & III – several graded Csound scores (.sc) and orchestras (.orc) by Andy Hunt
- Csound Tutorial Instrument
Library– by Richard Orton
- 12 orchestras and scores introducing Csound (PDF)
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