What is SculptTool
It's a little computer music research utility which can import, modify,
convert, export and synthesize several audio analisys files saved in text
format.
What does it do
It reads partial tracking files, additive analysis files
and filtering parameter files. Those files can be generated by programs
AudioSculpt, Diphone, SVP and Ceres3.
It interprets them as sets of partials, which can then get cut,
copied, pasted, sorted, scaled, transposed, mirrored, inverted, warped
as well as artificially generated. Partials can also get filtered by means
of linear prediction (LPC) files saved in text format and much more.
How to work with it
It accepts command-line arguments either manually, while running
in interactive mode or from a script-file in automatic mode. It has a UNIX-like
shell/console interface and works under MacOSX, MacOS, IRIX and Linux so far. MacOS and IRIX versions also have a simple front-end GUI.
If you want to explore
what to do with it, you will use interactive mode. In the interactive mode
the shell displays prompts which direct the user. An extensive on-line
help is provided at each step of the work. Once you
have your ideas clear,
you can write command-line scripts into a score file and SculptTool will
process them automatically into a single-algorithm piece.
What kind of hardware is needed
A PowerPC platform with at least 32 MBytes of free RAM (MacOS, LinuxPPC); A G3 or G4 (MacOSX). An SGI workstation running IRIX, with at least 128 MBytes of RAM. You will benefit very much from a speedy machine; SculptTool does a huge amount of floating-point data crunching. A large and fast hard disk with a few hundred free megabytes is very helpful.
Operating systems (v. 0.5.1):
MacOSX: 10.1.2
MacOS: 8.6, 8.5x, 8.x, 7.6.1
PowerPC
SGI: IRIX 6.5 with n32 libraries
LinuxPPC 1999 and up
RedHatLinux-6.0
Questions:
Please report those to my
e-mail address .
Credits:
Columbia University CMC for being research host institution.
William J. Fulbright Foundation and Ministry of Science and Technology
of the Republic of Croatia for partial financial support.
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia for partial financial
support.
Forum IRCAM for presentation, feedback and evaluation.
Brad Garton for Mentorship
Dave Topper for memory management tutorial
Metrowerks Inc, for CodeWarrior Academic
Zlatko Mihalic (University of Zagreb) for programming advice
Disclaimer:
SculptTool is free and you can freely run it at your own risk. By no means will I nor can I guarantee that the program will work on your particular machine and system the way it should. In other words:
NO WARRANTY
If you still feel like trying it out
download
SculptTool (MacOS binary+tutorial&documentation) 3.6 Meg.
download
SculptTool (SGI binary+tutorial&documentation) 3.0 Meg.
download
SculptTool (LinuxPPC-binary only).
download
SculptTool (Linux -experimental-binary only).
download
SculptTool (MacOS X -experimental-binary only).
download
SculptTool (BeOS -legacy! -binary only).
download
SculptTool documentation (2.5 Meg)
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