Wellspring Music publishes ProcessPack, a Sound Processing Package. This is music software that will be of interest to electroacoustic composers, or indeed anyone who wishes to create sound transformations of recorded sound-files. The output sound-files may be employed as complete sound compositions, or used within film and other audio-visual productions. While the input files must be in standard .wav format, software to convert to-and-from .mp3 format may be obtained free-of-charge. Further details of the program’s extensive capabilities may be seen on the ProcessPack Description page.
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A new version of ProcessPack, Version 1.5, will be released on March 31st, 2012. This will incorporate improvements and additions to the current set of available modules, plus several entirely new ones, including a ‘MidiFile Reader’, ‘Scramble’, ‘Shimmer’ and ‘Sonify’, each with an innovative collection of facilities. This nearly doubles the size of the sound processing package. Publishing policy is as follows: any purchaser of a ProcessPack licence (the current price is £47.00) is able to upgrade free of charge to the latest version for a period of one year from the purchase date. Existing customers are able to renew their licence for the price of £20.00 sterling within one month of expiry, and will receive email reminders at the appropriate time. The latest version of ProcessPack is Version 1.4, adding Pan and Spin to earlier modules - Audition, Dispersal, Echo, FilterBank, Hover, PlayMix, Pyramid, ReMix, Reverse and Wraith. Each process keeps automatic notes, to which the user may add his or her own gloss. Also included is Archiving, for sound-project management. Many additional features! Available for download. Existing Customers: Download your installation file here. FreeTrial Version: This will run in evaluation mode for 20 days. For a limited period a license can be purchased for £47.00. Download your FreeTrial Version here. OR: If you wish to purchase a license for ProcessPack, click the ‘Buy Now’ button below: See the latest changes in Version 1.4 – Latest Changes See the latest changes in Version 1.3 – Latest Changes See the latest changes in Version 1.25 – Latest Changes Sound Editing with ProcessPack’s ‘Dispersal’ module. With ProcessPack’s ‘Dispersal’ module, it is possible to undertake simple editing tasks, as well as to cut and splice fragments from a sound-file and combine them in a stereo sound-space, with control over many ‘pan’ features. As an example, let us select a four-second segment from a sound-file called ‘sunday.wav’, the original of which is nineteen seconds in length. We wish to extract, say, a four-second segment starting at 5.87”. To do this, we pre-select ‘sunday.wav’ from the list in the left-hand pane (by double-clicking on the name), and then click ‘Dispersal’ in the Processing pane to the right. The Dispersal screen which appears can seem a bit daunting to the novice! To achieve our goal, we need to set both Transposition Functions, External and Internal, to ‘None’, so that the segment we select will not be treated in any way. Next, we set the ‘How many Segments?’ value to 1, as we wish to cut out a single fragment rather than many. Since we wish to cut out just 4” from the file, we set the ‘Segment Cut-length’ to ‘Constant’ and use the scroll-wheel to select 4.00”. The ‘Segment Selection’ box should be set to ‘Single’, and when this is done, the ‘Single Segment Time’ box will become active and will show a value. If we click the ‘Segment Cut Position’ box to ‘Random’, a random value within the file will appear, and a new random value will be set each time we click the ‘Random’ button. However, in our example we know we wish to set the start-time of the segment to 5.87”, so we click ‘Forward’ for the ‘Segment Cut Position’. The ‘Single Segment Time’ value will change to ‘0.00’, and we can change this to 5.87” by using the scroll-wheel, or by selecting with the mouse the value inside the scroll-wheel box and typing in ‘5.87’. Now, when we click the ‘OK’ button at the bottom of the screen, we will most likely see a message saying ‘Setting output sound-file length to 4.00”’. This is because the output sound-file length has been re-set to comply with our request. (If the output sound-file length was already set to 4.00”, this message will not appear.) Clicking OK on the message box will close it, and return us the main ProcessPack window, where the new sound-file – by default named DSPn.wav (where n is the next number in the DSP series) will be listed in the sound-file (left) pane. At this point we can listen to the file we have made, by double-clicking on the sound-file name, and then selecting ‘Audition’ in the right pane. Also, we can see the notes automatically added by pre-selecting the sound-file name, and pressing ‘n’ (for notes) on the keyboard. If desired, further notes may be added by the user before saving NotePad. Discover the power of ProcessPack music software, download your free trial by clicking here now!OR Music Software comes in many different guises, some for producing musical scores which can be read and played by instrumentalists or performed by ensembles, choirs and orchestras. In today’s technological environment an even more exciting development in the field of music software is that of the creation of new sounds and compositions which can be directly played on a computer, later to be written to a CD for musical enjoyment, or performed on loudspeakers, as a special sound-programme in its own right. Even more use is made of special sound-creations in the media – as sound-tracks for film or television, as accompaniments to theatre productions, or audio-visual extravaganzas of every conceivable type. These productions are increasingly facilitated by a special type of music software, well represented by WellSpringMusic’s ProcessPack program. This is an application written and designed by musicians who have grown up in the developing field of electronic music. They were involved in establishing the UK’s first University electronic music studio back in the 1960s, and were among the country’s earliest practitioners of the creation of musical sound by means of the computer. These days a studio dedicated to the art of producing new sounds, desirable as it is, may not be entirely necessary for the new art forms, as very sophisticated sound processes can be employed to create new sounds and new musical compositions on a home computer. A sound artist or musical composer may begin with any recorded sound as a starting-point. Specially chosen recorded sounds are the first step. Above all, the musician uses his or her highly-trained ear to select what are the most interesting, intriguing, and beguiling sounds from which to assemble a sound-composition. Having collected a set of recordings to use as the source, it is then essential to use the most appropriate music software to achieve transformations and manipulations of these sounds that will form the building-blocks of the new musical composition. ProcessPack, as an example of sound-processing music software, is an environment which offers many different sorts of treatment of the user’s collected sounds. We can start with one called ‘Dispersal’. Here the main idea is to cut up the sound-source into as many chunks as desired, manipulate them by transposition – the process of moving the sound upwards or downwards in pitch, and to re-assemble them into a sound of a specific desired length. The maximum number of sound-fragments, or ‘chunks’, that can be manipulated in any one process is 999! The strategy of how the fragments are made is chosen by the user, and can be a constant length or a random selection of lengths within defined limits, and so on. The lengths of the chunks can be very short – as short as 0.16”. Discover the power of ProcessPack music software, download your free trial by clicking here now!OR |
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