SoundHack: A Brief Overview (original) (raw)

1997, Computer Music Journal

SoundHack is a sound-file processing program for the Apple Macintosh. When I started writing it in 1991, there was very little signal-processing software available on the Macintosh. Because my first exposure to computer music was at the Computer Audio Research Lab in San Diego, I wanted to have programs like Mark Dolson's pvoc and convolvesf (Moore, Loy, and Dolson 1983) on a computer that I could afford. By implementing spectral soundprocessing algorithms on the Macintosh, I was able to take advantage of the computer's graphical user interface to make the algorithms easy to use and understand. My intention with SoundHack has been to make sophisticated sound processing available on this inexpensive, intuitive computer and, consequently, to make it accessible to most composers.