Subvert Audio

Description: I developed Subvert Audio as the main project for my Masters in Music Technology at Glasgow University (2003-2004). The aim of the program is to try and address the general reluctance of music software to make a conscious effort to stimulate the creativity of the user. Generally, music software seems to take the position that the user bears the entire responsibility for creative input, and shies away from any attempt to stimulate the user's creativity. Subvert Audio, however, was developed with the express aim of stimulating the user's creativity.

One of the fundamental ways it tries to achieve this is by presenting the user with an interface that is intended to be subverted (hence the name) - it is intended that the most creative results will come from using the program in ways it perhaps doesn't appear to be intended to be used.

Another fundamental concept of the program is that it is up to the user to explore it. As such, there will be very little detail in this file as to how to use the program, and there will never be a user manual, as such. There is, however, a dynamic on-line help system - whenever the user makes a particular discovery (known as a landmark in the program), a corresponding entry will be added to the on-line help (there are 18 landmarks in total).

(Subvert Audio is licensed under the GNU GPL, see COPYING for details)

Installation

Windows: Windows installation should simply be a matter of extracting the

contents of the .zip file to an appropriate directory. Linux: Linux users should download the source tar.gz, untar it, and do

the usual ./configure, make. Note that, although it is possible to do "make install", the program doesn't currently support being installed in such a manner, as it expects to be able to write to the help files. Linux users might also want to look at the SourceCodeNotes.txt file. OS X: Coming soon, as soon as I can get hold of a mac that has the

wchar.h header file on it...

How to Use:

As mentioned above, there's not going to be much detail here. Basically the only thing to remember is that your mouse has 2 buttons (well, if you're on a mac, Ctrl-click takes the place of the right button). Everything else is up to you.

Niall Moody (11/1/05)

Third-Party Licenses:

PortAudio

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TinyXML

TinyXml is released under the zlib license:

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