SynthBuilder a tool for designing Synths (FREE)

[gregory scandalis]

ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF SYNTHBUILDER BETA27

Mountain View, California,  July 23, 1997 -- Staccato Systems Inc, 
announces the availability of the award winning computer music 
application, SynthBuilder, version Beta 27 for NeXT and Intel NeXTStep 
platforms (3.2 and 3.3). 

SynthBuilder is a graphical, extensible, object-oriented, NeXTStep 
application for interactive real-time design of synthesizer patches.   
It was written by Nick Porcaro, David Jaffe, Pat Scandalis, Julius 
Smith, and Tim Stilson, with contributions by Scott Van Duyne. It was  
part of the Stanford University Sondius project, and is now being further 
developed by Staccato Systems.  

SynthBuilder can be downloaded from http://www.StaccatoSys.com, under the 
SynthBuilder link, or from ftp://ftp.StaccatoSys.com.  The NextStep 
version of SynthBuilder is royalty free, and auth codes to enable all 
of its features can be obtained from the Staccato Web site. 

According to Professor Julius Smith, "For the past several years 
SynthBuilder has been an effective rapid prototyping tool for physical 
modeling synthesis algorithms developed at Stanford's Center for 
Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)". 

SynthBuilder developer Nick Porcaro notes that  "We've been 
using SynthBuilder [at CCRMA] to develop physical models as 
well as effects and other audio algorithms. Hopefully soon lots of folks 
will be making wild patches that we never would have thought of". 

Staccato is also developing Windows, Mac and Rhapsody versions of 
SynthBuilder for release sometime in 1998, with pricing to be determined. 


Contact:
Staccato Systems Inc
Mtn View, CA, USA
+001-415-964-4483
staccato at StaccatoSys.com
http://www.StaccatoSys.com
ftp://ftp.StaccatoSys.com




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| Gregory Pat Scandalis | Netcom                     gps at netcom.com |
|   Staccato Systems    | CCRMA              gps at ccrma.stanford.edu |
|    (415) 964-4483     | Exploratorium       gps at exploratorium.edu |
|                       | Staccato       http://www.StaccatoSys.com |
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