What is SculptView
It's a little sine-wave analysis file visualisation, editing, processing
and sound resynthesis utility which can import, modify,
convert, export and render several audio analisys file types saved in text
format. It is based on the SculptTool analysis/algorithmic processing/synthesis engine
and OpenGL visualization and interactive visual editing.
What does it do
It reads several formats of partial tracking files, SDIF text files and certain
plain text files (the recent version - interactively). Such files can be generated by programs
AudioSculpt, Diphone, SPEAR, SVP and Ceres3, but can also be human-made plain text files.
It interprets them as sets of partials, which can then get cut,
copied, pasted, moved, sorted, scaled, transposed, mirrored, inverted, harmonized, warped
as well as artificially generated, also individually manipulated. Modified files can be saved in text format, as well as
exported into several analysis formats (LISP, CMIX, SPEAR, SDIF) as plain text files. Entire partials, selected partials, parts of partials
and time-snapshot streams can be played live by various means. AIFF audio files can be synthesized from
analysis files and exported. Algorithmic RTCMIX score files can be generated and exported from the program.
How to work with it
You need a standard three-button mouse, because of many menu and editing commands
which work properly *only* with modifier keys on *each* of the three mouse buttons.
This means that "control-left click" is what it is, not a substitute for "right-click",
and so is with scrolls, sweeps and drags of all the three buttons. Please scroll down to the
help-file link.
Frequently asked questions:
Other questions:
Please report those to stanko"at"music.columbia.edu
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.
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, for partial financial support.
Forum IRCAM for presentation, feedback and evaluation.
Dave Topper for memory management tutorials
Xavier Rodet for SDIF related explanations
Mark J. Kilgard, for advice concerning the GLUT library
Disclaimer:
SculptView is free and can be freely run at own risk. By no means shall I nor can I guarantee that the program will work on your particular machine and system the way you want it. In other words:
NO WARRANTY
If you still feel like trying it out
download
SculptView (MacOS X -experimental-binary only).
SculptView
help file
download
SculptView (IRIX - X11 legacy version).
legacy version SculptView
help file