CDP Tutorials, Guides and Examples
Introduction to the CDP System
Technical / Set-up
- Running the CDP System
– by Archer Endrich (revised and updated R.Fraser)
- The CDP system environment: setting up, 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 a Graphic User Interface.
- 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
- The Sound Loom & CDP (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 (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 multi-process batch-file examples (Windows / OS X)
Downloadable Workshops
- Links to Workshops
- CDP website introduction to the Workshops 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(a): Composing with CDP Texture (21 examples)
Workshop 2(b): Transposition, Shifting and (pitch trace) Combinations - Workshop 2(a): Composing with CDP Texture (21 examples)
'Groucho' Time-Domain Processing
- A Drunk Tutorial – by Archer Endrich, with 6 worked examples
- For TEXTURE, see the Texture Workshop Composing with the CDP Texture Programs by Archer Endrich.
GRAINMILL: - A GrainMill
Tutorial – by Philippos Theocharidis
- Comprehensive introduction and tutorial for this powerful graphic program (PC systems only)
- GrainMill Examples
– by Richard Dobson
- Various 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
- Aspects of Sound Design, including reference to 16 CDP techniques
- 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 – by Andy Hunt
- Csound Tutorial Instrument
Library– by Richard Orton
- 12 orchestras and scores introducing Csound (hard copy only)
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