Ben Jordan dives deep into the software of Aphex Twin. Primarily focusing on Aphex Twin’s peak around the turn of the century. Jordan goes through details examples and how you can (attempt) to create your own. There is a trove of resources and links to free software you could tinker with yourself.
If you are interested in electronic music, music history, or just making your own tunes; check out this video!
That incredible work from @digiphex electronics on the Polyend Tracker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVmGnTgyUCQ
Trevor Wishart’s Audible Design PDF (we hugged Trevor’s server to death, I’ll upload a backup somewhere if I get permission to redistribute ): https://www.trevorwishart.co.uk/AUDIBLE_DESIGN.pdf
A video of me making linear drum/glitchiness on an old workstation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgGO8cxFB6g
Okay, big list of things to check out that were more or less ambiguously used. Not for the faint of heart. Please dive in!
Old hard/software:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OctaMED
https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/digidesign-turbosynth/2295
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_Music_Machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum
https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/dr-ts-tiger-cub/451
https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/c-lab-notator-logic/5491
https://www.vintagesynth.com/casio/FZ20M (for timestretches)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/playerpro/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPICStuff we cannot find much about in 2024:
PDS Soundview (mentioned here https://www.jstor.org/stable/3680904 )
Stuff you can easily run today:
https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
https://www.composersdesktop.com/
https://www.ircam.fr/
https://supercollider.github.io/
https://uisoftware.com/metasynth/
https://www.iannix.org/en/
https://inagrm.com/en
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