Creative Sound Transformation and Analysis using ASAP & Partiels by Pierre Guillot

  • Published on 25 oct. 2024 by guillot

ASAP is a collection of audio plug-ins that allows creatively transforming sound. You are invited to play with the sound representation and the synthesis parameters to generate new sounds. The plug-ins can also be used to correct the defaults of the sound and to improve audio rendering. Thanks to the ARA2 integration, the spectral transformations are integrated into your editing workflow.

In this talk, Pierre Guillot will give a brief introduction to the historical heritage and artistic and research context in which ASAP plug-ins were developed, highlighting the challenges and innovative nature of the project. He will present the functionalities offered by the ASAP collection, and in particular the plug-ins based on ARA2 technology. The Psycho Filter plug-in lets you draw shape filters on the sound spectrogram and control their gain and fade. The sound representation and user interface enable you to create highly complex and precise surface filters to reduce or enhance specific parts of the sound's spectral components, to compensate for annoying artifacts in the sound, to isolate certain specificities of the sound and to creatively transform the sound. The Pitches Brew plugin lets you transpose the pitch and formant of sounds by drawing and modifying their frequency curves. Beyond the exceptional quality of the processing, the plugin offers a visual representation of the original fundamental frequencies, expected pitches, and formants with curves enabling numerous original edits such as redrawing, transposing, stretching, copying, etc.