Stage-ready instruments for the live electronic musician.

Read "Hacking Pärt: A Robust, Compositionally-Based System for Generating Live Harmonies"
published in Journal SEAMUS from the The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music.

What this software is not:

Pretty graphical applications where you click and drag your way to making fun sounds from soundfiles on your hard-drive in a few minutes.

What this software is:

A way to performatively transform live sound as it streams into your computer from microphones or otherwise using commercially available Midi controllers you can get good at with practice.

A way to be a performer whose performance is intimately and tangibly connected to your surrounding band-mates' performances.

An effort toward keeping electronic music truly live, 100% rooted in sonic expressions made in the same room with the audience.

Free. (under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license)

Ableton Live Max for Live Devices:

System Requirements:

Ableton Live with Max for Live 7 or greater installed and a Midi controller.

Total Recall / Live for Live Music / The One and True Deus Ex Machina

latest --> Download SuperConductor 2.0 (Mac OS & maybe Windows 64 bit Live)
older: Download SuperConductor 1.0.0 (Mac OS 32 bit Live only)
SuperConductor Users Guide (you'll need this).

Score-literate Percussive Alchemist / Triggering Reform Activist

latest --> Download Trigger Finger 2.0 (Mac OS & maybe Windows 64 bit Live)
older: Download Trigger Finger 1.0.0 (Mac OS 32 bit Live only)
Trigger Finger Users Guide (you'll need this).

Melody Maker / Rallentandofier / Pitch & Rhythm Polemicist

Download Five Finger Discount 1.0.0
Five Finger Discount Users Guide (you'll need this).

Standalone Applications:

System Requirements:

At least 1 GHz of modern processing speed and 512 MB of RAM on a Mac OS X or Windows computer with Java 32-bit 1.4 (or higher) installed and a robust Midi Controller(s).

Mnemonica

Keyboard Driven Sampler-Sustainer / Nostalgifier / Awesomer

Download Mnemonica 1.0 for Mac OS X (10 MB disk image)
Download Mnemonica 1.0 for Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista (5.1 MB windows executable)
All Mnemonica documentation on set-up and usage (you'll need this) is here.

MØØP

Midi Looper-Transformer / Term of Endearment / Hey, could you hold this a second?

Download Moop 1.0.0 for Mac OS X (45 MB disk image)
Download Moop 1.0.0 for Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista (31.4 MB windows executable)
All Moop documentation on set-up and usage (you'll need this) is here.
~ Why you may want a Midi and not an Audio Looper ~

StreamSequencer

Live Input Sequencer / Cutter-Upper / Upper-Cutter

Download StreamSequencer 1.0 for Mac OS X (10 MB disk image)
Download StreamSequencer 1.0 for Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista (5.1 MB windows executable)
All StreamSequencer documentation on set-up and usage (you'll need this) is here.

These standalone Software Instruments include packages from SoftSynth's JSyn and/or Grame's MidiShare. On Macintosh systems, the installers below will automatically begin the MidiShare installer during their installation process. If you have already set-up MidiShare system-wide on your machine, feel free to quit out of the MidiShare installer during the installation process. The JSyn files within these applications should not interfere with any previous JSyn system installs.

Comments / bug reports to ct [at] wiresundertension.com