estine/ecobobbles

Ecologically informed VST Plug-ins and M4L Devices

EcoBobbles

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Ecologically informed VST Plug-ins and M4L Devices for sound creation and manipulation.

Extensions of Eli Stine's 2019 dissertation, Modeling Natural Systems in Immersive Electroacoustic Music.

Plug-ins

• Generator-Processors

  • MurMini — Flocking Simulation-Driven Granular Synthesizer

  

  • AcousTransMini — Acoustic Niche Hypothesis-Informed Sound Mapper

  

• FX-LFOs

  • EvoFX - Evolutionary Algorithm Controlled Effects Rack
  • LVLFO - Predator-Prey Model (Lotka–Volterra Equations) LFO Bank

• Other (TBD)

  • Data Sonifier - load in a file, sonify it horizontally, vertically, parametrically, etc.

Author(s)

• @estine

Goals / Hopes / Dreams

Export Targets

• RNBO exported VSTs without GUI (Max)
• RNBO- or JUCE- or HISE-created VSTs with GUI (Max, C++, Cmajor, Javascript)
• M4L devices for Ableton Live with GUI (Max)

Design Principles

• Slick, easy to evaluate and execute GUIs
• Comprehensive but not overwhelming parameter spaces (effective parameter multiplexing)
• Lots of audio demos and use within music
• Async as well as syncing to BPM and beat grid

Tasks

• Make a GUI front in JUCE for the SimpleGlitcher (just attach some knobs / faders to it)
• MurMini initial version in RNBO (granular synth with params. controlled by flock sim.)

Timeline

Phase I

• Explore mockup GUI design in JUCE
• Mockup EcoBobbles in Max, semi-conscious of RNBO~ limitations, target is RNBO~ without GUIs
• Get functioning as VSTs using RNBO~, test within compositions

Phase II

• Create full-fledged, custom GUI versions in JUCE, based off of RNBO~

Phase III

• Documentation creation, final touches, and beta testing

Phase IV

• Release, promotion