CDP Contributors

Adrian ArmstrongSuper-Smoother (TT030/Falcon030 computers only).

Martin Atkins – YORK - CDP soundfile system, system environment tools, ports to other systems and continued maintenance.

Andrew Bentley – HELSINKI- prepared the initial 'Groucho' Signal Processing package of 20 programs.

Peter Bowcott – NOTTINGHAM - ported the Carnegie Mellon MIDI Toolkit used on the original ST Systems, and wrote PLAYMANY and several System troubleshooting tools.

Michael Clarke – HUDDERSFIELD - FOF, based on Xavier Rodet's pioneering research, which has entered both the CDP System and Csound itself.

Richard Dobson – FROME - The Operation of the Phase Vocoder; writes, tests and helps to document programs, and maintains the CDP System on all platforms. He has written several new programs for the System and is now actively extending the low-level system capability and working on specific areas of graphic development.

Florian Eidenbenz – ZURICH - conversion programs between the CDP soundfile format and the AIFF format, used on ST systems.

Archer (Tom) Endrich – CHIPPENHAM - administrative coordinator of CDP; author of several tutorials and general editor/publisher for CDP documentation.

Rajmil Fischman – KEELE - the first CDP Graphic Desktop, and while teaching at Keele University organised and contributed to the development of the Keele Desktop (authors Andy Jongman, Duncan Hansell, Panos Kudumakis, & Rajmil himself).

John Fitch – BATH – assistance with various technical matters.

Robert Fraser – EDINBURGH - author of Soundshaper, a comprehensive and very practical graphic interface to the CDP programs.

Mark Grimshaw – SALFORD - contributions to the conceptual development of several of the CDP spectral modules. This cross- fertilization took place during discussions with Trevor Wishart while Mark was writing a set of his own spectral manipulation programs at York University.

Öyvind Hammer – OSLO - a library for creating custom granulation effects.

David Humpage – TOFT-NEXT-NEWTON - SHUNT, a specialised desktop with mix times accurate to the frame and buttons for most frequently used programs (written for Atari ST systems).

Andy Hunt – YORK - the tutorials Getting Started in Csound 1, 2, 3. Author of Midigrid.

Leigh Landy – MANCHESTER - the paper Sound Transformations in Electroacoustic Music; a primary policy advisor for CDP.

Nick Laviers – KEELE - improvements to the Groucho programs, and gathered together all the early libraries into CDPLIB. Now working on sound design for Electronic Arts.

David Malham – YORK - created the CDP SoundSTreamer and DATDAC used with Atari ST and TT030 Systems.

Bertrand Merlier – LYONS - Groucho Shell, a shell program for Groucho on the ST, with a command history, CPLAY, a version of the play program with a MIDI triggering facility (Atari ST Systems).

Manuel Op de Coul – EINDHOVEN - Midore to convert standard MIDI files to the Csound score format.

Richard Orton - YORK - Adsyn Draw, Scorp, and the innovative algorithmic score generator and real-time performing instrument, Tabula Vigilans; wrote the Csound Tutorial Instrument Library and has put in many hours helping with CDP documentation and providing wise advice and guidance as CDP has evolved over the years.

Richard Polfreman & Mark Bilton – KEELE - the Phase Mutator (TT030/Falcon030 computers only).

Melvyn Poore – COLOGNE - Disp to display spectral data (Atari ST and 030 systems). Melvyn is a professional tuba player of international renown, with a special interest in real-time systems.

Peter Ridsdale – BRISTOL - Peter has put together the Feature Composer pages for our Website. As a composer, we works with an innovative band, often combining video and music.

David Rossiter – YORK - the Score program, a specialised CDP desktop which emulates a page of musical score.

Hans Strasburger – MUNICH - it was through his initiative that Score 11 has become available to CDP, and he helped one of his students create a graphic MIDI input for it: Score_11_Input (Atari ST systems).

Philippos Theocharidis – NEWCASTLE - author of a comprehensive HTML tutorial for GrainMill; preset examples can be Loaded, studied and explored.

Rob Waring – OSLO - he has worked with Öyvind Hammer to create the library for custom applications for granular effects.

Tom Williams – SCARBOROUGH - organised the very successful CDP Conferences held at Keele University and the Overhear CD of electroacoustic music.

Trevor Wishart – YORK - outstanding contributions to CDP as author of most of the Groucho (Time Domain) and all of the Spectral (Frequency Domain) functions. Author of Sound Loom a comprehensive graphic interface for the CDP System, with graphic tree instrument creation, a table editor, a breakpoint editor and a music calculator. This 'intelligent composing environment' is designed to emulate his own composing methods.

Gerhard Wolfstieg – Gerhard contributed a compilation of CMUSIC for the Atari-based systems.

Louisa Yong – SALFORD - creator of the ComeXos system for Internet access to a selection of CDP programs; it includes extensive documentation and a sound library.

Updated 7 April 2005.


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