Making Musical Apps: Using the Libpd Sound Engine

Peter Brinkmann

ISBN 10: 1449314902 / ISBN 13: 9781449314903

Published by O Reilly Media, Inc, USA, 2012

About this Item

2012. 1st Edition. Paperback. Pure Data (Pd) is a graphical programming environment for audio and more; libpd is a wrapper that turns Pd into a portable, embeddable audio library. Brian Eno's soundtrack of the game Spore is generated by Pure Data. Inception The App is based on libpd and has been downloaded more than three million times. The popular RJDJ also uses the technology Num Pages: 122 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: UGM. Category: (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 234 x 180 x 7. Weight in Grams: 230. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Musical Apps: Using the Libpd Sound Engine
• Publisher: O Reilly Media, Inc, USA
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449314902
• ISBN 13: 9781449314903
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Want to turn your mobile device into a musical instrument? Or equip your game with interactive audio, rather than canned samples? You can do it with Pure Data (Pd), an open source visual programming environment that lets you manipulate digital audio in real time. This concise book shows you how to use Pd―with help from the libpd library―as an easily embeddable and widely portable sound engine.

Whether you’re an audio developer looking to create musical apps with sophisticated audio capabilities, or an application developer ready to enhance mobile games with real-time procedural audio, Making Musical Apps introduces you to Pd and libpd, and provides hands-on instructions for creating musical apps for Android and iOS.

• Get a crash course in Pd, and discover how to generate and control sounds
• Learn how to create and deploy algorithmic compositions that react to a user’s activity and environment
• Use Java or Objective-C to integrate Pd and libpd into mobile apps
• Learn the steps necessary to build libpd-based apps for Android and iOS

About the Author

Peter is the principal developer behind libpd. He has a PhD in mathematics and has published in pure mathematics, virtual reality, and computer music. He has contributed to several open source projects, was a college professor, and is now a software engineer at Google.