Yes, the Abelton guys are pretty savvy to the academic computer music scene.<br><br>Operator is a really nicely designed software synth that mainly does FM, but also has filters and oscillators good for subtractive synthesis. The key feature of it for me are the envelope generators, which have all sorts of interesting looping modes that can create all sorts of textures. It was designed by Robert Henke of Monolake fame.<br>
<br>It also has a perfect GUI and is incredibly quick to realize complex sounds with it.<br><br>Ableton showcase on Operator: <a href="http://www.ableton.com/operator">http://www.ableton.com/operator</a> <br><br>This video shows a lot of the neat features. It is a presentation given by Henke at a trade show, and is quite remarkable:<br>
<a href="http://www.ableton.com/pages/instruments/operator/showcase/movie">http://www.ableton.com/pages/instruments/operator/showcase/movie</a><br><br>Maybe it will inspire some other ideas?<br><br>Enjoy the new year!<br>
<br>~Kyle<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Frank Barknecht <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:fbar@footils.org">fbar@footils.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hallo,<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">Kyle Klipowicz hat gesagt: // Kyle Klipowicz wrote:<br>
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&gt; Really awesome Frank!<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I like how you&#39;ve been touring the Ableton toolkit for Pd-inspiration. They<br>
&gt; were pretty much prototyped in Max anyway, so it&#39;s definitely doable by keen<br>
&gt; minds such as yours.<br>
<br>
</div>Well, I guess it&#39;s more that Ableton are touring the computer music<br>
literature, DAFx proceedings etc. for effect inspiration in a similar<br>
way as I do sometimes. ;)<br>
<br>
What does &quot;Operator&quot; do?<br>
<br>
Ciao<br>
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