The Music and Sound Design Platform


    What is The Music and Sound Design Platform? (2017 edition)


    Music_SDP is a Digital Audio Performance Environment; a system designed around the creation and manipulation of audio in a real-time, replacing the two-dimensional sequencer of the standard Digital Audio Workstation with a non-linear, performance-focused work environment.
    Music_SDP is a modular, expandable system that can be used to create and play with audio, to explore musical ideas, to produce works of music for live performance, and to create and record entire electronic compositions.
    Music_SDP is an open-source, free, cross-platform music creation environment. It exists as a standalone application for OSX and Windows, and the source-code is available as a separate download.

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    • Feb 23 2016 | 11:59 am
      Looking forward to exploring this!
      Unfortunately, the link to the website doesn't seem to work, but found it anyway.
      Thanks.
    • Feb 23 2016 | 7:16 pm
      Looks like a little code was missing from the URL. All fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out!
    • Feb 24 2016 | 1:39 pm
      To anyone who's looking at this project, I want to let it be known that I'm trying to make this a community-driven tool! I've developed a module template that should make it easy (easier anyway) for people to expand the functionality of the system on their own, and I'm looking to get anyone involved who may be interested in adding to the software. The template is included in the code and has a small explanation about how to get your tools to work in the system. If you have any questions feel free to leave them here or send me an email using the contact form on the website!
      Thanks for sharing this project!
    • Feb 24 2016 | 1:57 pm
      Just wanted to say, this looks like a major undertaking; a substantial piece of work and highly representative of the GNU/opensource ethos.
      Kudos!
    • Feb 24 2016 | 3:59 pm
      Thanks Brendan, that's very high praise. This is my first time releasing software and so I'm working hard to figure out how these projects ought to work. If you have any tips on how I can more accurately stick to that opensource ethos, please feel free to share! And if you'd like to contribute let me know! I'll be posting a tutorial on using the module template sometime in the next week or so on youtube.
    • Feb 27 2016 | 7:32 pm
      Big project! Very impressive.
    • Feb 28 2016 | 3:51 am
      Well done - a hell of a lot of work has evidently gone into this.