Supporting the Sound Description Interchange Format in the Max/MSP Environment

Authors

Matthew Wright, Richard Dudas, Sami Khoury, Raymond Wang, David Zicarelli

Abstract

We have added support for the Sound Description Interchange Format to the Max/MSP environment. We briefly introduce SDIF and Max/MSP, describe how SDIF data is represented in MSP and how to write programs to manupulate SDIF data, and demonstrate example applications.

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