Abstract
The availability of microcomputers has done little to give a musician or acoustic researcher of modest means access to computer‐assisted sound generation. To help remedy this situation, our work has resulted in an integrated digital sound synthesis system using a popular microcomputer and commercially available plug‐in synthesizer, all for less then $4000. One software package for music generation and another for psychoacoustic research viii be described. For music, the program VERSATRACS allows versatile manipulation of sound in real time or artificial time. Musical note entry is from a piano‐style keyboard. All notes and parameter modifications are held in memory for subsequent playback, editing, and permanent storage on floppy disk. For psychoacoustics, the program AUDIO EDITOR uses frequency‐vs‐time and amplitude‐vs‐time histories to control independently each of 16 available digital oscillators. A novel time window representation provides powerful editing features. Sound samples of music and research audio will be presented. [This work is supported partially under a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.]
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