Atelier Audio Ircam

AAI

LastVersion

version 3.64 : Mac 64 bits, Windows 32/64 bits

Porting for M1+ computers in progress.

What's new? (FR)

What is AAI ?

AtelierAudioIrcam (AAI) is a software developed by Grégoire Lorieux at Ircam Pedagogy Department used to transformed sounds with different treatments. With its simple and intuitive interface, it's usable by every muisician.

It was developed under Max from 2008 to now, with the idea of providing access, in a few clicks, and without prior knowledge, to transformation modules, in the frame of workshops about voice transformation and sound design.

AtelierAudioIrcam has been used in conservatories, but also in many ircam workshops in relation with french National Education : Ateliers de la Creation, a project done in the scale of the France aimed to professional high-schools.

More recently, it was the angular stone of a pedagogical project aimed at music school teachers : a series of lectures to initiate and autonomize instrument teachers to mixted music and using the real time transformations in a pedagogical goal.

Installation

Installation and first Launch

AAI is distributed under the form of a Max Patch.

What is Max?

Max is a programmation software created originally at ircam. It allows to create "patches" for various uses : concerts, installations...
You have to download Max freely (Mac OS or Windows).
At first download, Max 8 is accessible without restrictions during 30 days then edition options are to purchase.
To use AAI, you don't have to buy Max.

To install AAI, follow these steps :

Install Max

• first download the latest version of Max on Cycling 74 website.
• install Max following the instructions.

install AAI

• Download AAI latest version .
• unzip the downloaded document

First Launch

• open Max.
• from Max, open the document called "_AtelierAudioIrcam.maxpat"

Other versions

version 3.42 "Legacy" : Mac 32 bits, Windows 32/64.

for older Macintosh computers.

Multimicro version : Mac 64 bits, Windows 32/64.

This version replaces soundfiles inputs by supplementary mic inputs.

Available audio treatments

bitcrusher

saturation and "destruction" of sound

boucleur

(looper) records and plays up to 4 sound layers

chorus

chorus effect

decoupage

granular synthesis and treatment

filtre

filtering

filtres résonants

a bank of resonating filters, beware of larsens when used in real-time!

flanger

flanger effect

gel

"freeze" effect, keeping a short time window of sound.

lignes à retard

classic delays with feedback for echo effect.

Modulation en Anneau

Ring Modulation, from regular rythmical amplitude modulation to spectrum transformation. It's possible to control precisely the frequency.

reverberation

room effect simulation

transpositions

4 transpositions of the sound in real-time, coupled to feedbacks.

Une transposition

one and only transposition

vitesse

speed : up to 15 seconds of sound are recorded and manipuable with speed, time stretches and transposition changes.

vocodeur

"robot voice" effect.

+

possibility to insert 2 VST plug ins.