The setup and the execution of the electroacoustic part of this work requires a Computer Music Designer (Max expert).
Version Information
- Performance date
- April 18, 2021
- Documentation date
- April 20, 2021
- Version
- Premiere
- Status
- valid
- Validation date
- August 6, 2021
- Documentalist
- lemouton (lemouton@ircam.fr)
- jean_millot (jmillot@ircam.fr)
- Length
- 32 min
Other Versions
ambisonic-Espro2023March 12, 2023
Detailed Staff
violin, second violin, viola, cello
Detailed staff comes from Brahms, send mail to ressources-contenus@ircam.fr for correction.
Channel Details
- Number of output channels
- 6
Electronic Equipment List
Audio Equipment
- 6 Loudspeaker
- Loudspeakers (generic)
- 2 subwoofer
- Subwoofers (generic)
Computer Music Equipment
- 1 MacBook Pro
- Apple Laptops (Apple) - Mac OS 10.13 (High Sierra)
- 1 Ircam Spat
- Library (Ircam) - spat5.panoramix~
- 1 antescofo~
- External objects (Ircam) - release develop2 - 1.0-330, Compiled on Nov 17 2020 21:31:46
- 1 Max 8
- Max (Cycling74)
- 1 Digiface USB
- Sound Board (RME) - 26 channels for audioloopbacks from supercollider to Max + 6 audio outputs to the lpoudspeakers
- 1 SuperCollider
- Music Software (Open Source) - version 3.11.2
Downloads
Record Premiere
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Quatuor and electro
13.97 Go
Ircam Spat5 library
IRCAM
719.78 Mo
Des Mondes possibles - score
Sasha Blondeau
16.43 Mo
patch and supercollider files
Sasha Blondeau
233.65 Mo
Super Collider extensions
supercollider
comment
sc3-plugins 3.11.1
10.8 Mo
SuperCollider executable
comment
v3.11.2
98.99 Mo
Instructions
The synthesis engine is supercollider
Spatialisation is done with panoramix in Max MSP
Audio setup
The quartet should be amplified in order to have a good balance with the electroacoustic part.
No live sound transformation.
Sampling Rate = 48 kHz
Loudspeaker setup
# Software setup
## audioloopback
In TotalMix
- set the RME audioboard channels 1 to 26 to loopback mode
- route the ouput channels 27/32 to the 6 surround speakers
supercollider
- start Supercollider
- open DesMondes_SC_synthes01.2.scd
- change the path
- adjust the audio output device
- evaluate successively
- the first part (between “()”)
- the second part (to load the buffers)
- the rest of the supercollider code (the Synth definitions)
max
- start max
- audio status
- open SJB_DesMondes01.maxpat
- keyboard shortcuts
- a : start antescofo
- space bar : trigger nextcue
Patch presentation
Initialization routine
see above
Performance notes
All the cues are triggered manually (refer to the score)
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