When used in conjunction with soft synths like Native Instrument's Reaktor, Galileo can help sound designers plumb the inner workings of these complex instruments, guided simply by aesthetics rather than a vast knowledge of audio synthesis.

This tool uses genetic algorithms with an interactive fitness function to efficiently traverse large synthesis paramter spaces to find interesting and musical sub-spaces.

A beta version for MacOS 10 is currently on hold while a Windows port is being developed. [screenshot]

The goal of this thesis was to implement a tool that,given a digital audio input, can extract and represent rhythm and musical time. The purpose of the tool is to help develop better models of rhythm for real-time computer based performance and composition. This analysis tool, Riddim, uses Independent Subspace Analysis (ISA) and a robust onset detection scheme to separate and detect salient rhythmic and timing information from different sonic sources within the input. This information is then represented in a format that can be used by a variety of algorithms that interpret timing information to infer rhythmic and musical structure. A secondary objective of this work is a “proof of concept” as a non-real-time rhythm analysis system based on ISA. This is a necessary step since ultimately it is desirable to incorporate this functionality in a real-time plug-in for live performance and improvisation.