Audio Architect

On the CD-ROM, Audio Architect is accompanied by a comprehensive tutorial on how to build your own instruments, prepared by Kenny McAlpine at Glasgow University. 

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An example of a simple AM instrument (Am.mae) implemented using Audio Architect can be found on the CD-ROM (in folder Aanets in the Audio Architecture materials). A collection of examples in pcmusic are available in folders Tutor and Ringmod. The reader will also find a number of annotated examples on various aspects of AM and RM in Robert Thompson s pcmusic tutorial. 

On the accompanying CD-ROM, Kenny McAlpine s Audio Architect tutorial (in folder audiarch) illustrates how to implement a simple FM instrument. A number of FM examples are also available in pcmusic (in folder Fm in the pcmusic materials) and Nyquist (check the tutorial in the Nyquist folder). There are also a couple of FM examples in Reaktor. 

Figure 4.9 A simple simulation of a pipe instrument in Audio Architect...

Figure 8.3 Audio Architect provides a menu of synthesis modules that mimic the various components of an analog synthesiser...

The modus operand of Reaktor is very similar to that of Audio Architect. Modules are selected from a menu and are interconnected in a working area to form instruments. (Figure 8.6). 

Nevertheless, Reality is easy to use and it is much quicker to learn than learning actual programming languages, such as Nyquist, or programming systems, such as Audio Architect Reality is flexible for building its patches and it can hold more than one thousand patches in its memory. Also, it offers M-voice polyphony and is multi-timbral to sixteen MIDI-channels. 

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