Dear all, Also we are teaching a related workshop in designing effects pedals with an Ubuntu-based open-source software and hardware platform. Thanks! -Edgar Berdahl ----- Forwarded Message ----- Stompbox Design CCRMA Workshop at Stanford University Instructors: Edgar Berdahl and Esteban Maestre Guest Lecturer: Jonathan Abel July 18-July 22, 2011 9AM-noon, 1PM-5PM Further information and sign up at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/workshops/stompbox-design Description: Come design your own flavor of stompbox at Stanford Universityʼs Stompbox Design workshop. We will teach you a brand new platform for implementing stompboxes that not only enables you to create any sound effects from the past but also promotes the creation of new sound effects. Our resources for new media design are also at your fingertips if you would like to re-design the concept of a guitar stompbox: for example, put a Wiimote on your guitar and use it to change the sound of the effect, or use some LEDs to simulate the glow of vacuum tubes or fire, or even incorporate a micro-sized Pico projector into your stompbox! The expanded world of digital audio effects is at your fingertips because the workshop incorporates: • Most basic theory of signal processing • Description of operation of prior stompboxes and digital audio effects • Laboratory exercise teaching you how to program our own open-source software and hardware platform involving: • connecting to your stompbox over an Ethernet connection from your laptop • creating new digital audio effects by connecting together basic building blocks in the graphical • programming language Pure Data • building simple button and knob interfaces to Pure Data (http://puredata.info) • Laboratory exercise teaching you how to program digital audio effects in C++ and/or Faust (http://faust.grame.fr) • Introduction to human-computer interface devices for projects • Further discussion of open-source hardware and software platforms including the Beagle Board (http://beagleboard.org) Finally, we will round out the workshop with a roundtable presentation of the stompboxes you create followed by an optional evening jam session for fun. This workshop is intended for: Musicians interested in exploring new possibilities in digital audio effects in a hands-on and technical way; Makers, engineers, computer scientists, or product designers interested in exploring artistic outlets for their talents and collaborating with musicians; and/or anyone looking to gain valuable skills in basic audio signal processing and human-computer interfaces, with a focus on invention. NOTE: There is a $20 lab fee included in the cost of this workshop. Participants have the option of purchasing a $200 lab kit at the end of the workshop. The kit contains a Beagle Board, an Arduino, a prototyping board, power supply, audio connectors, enclosure, ethernet cable, and a variety of sensors including potentiometers. The Beagle Board runs our own special distribution of embedded linux called Satellite CCRMA (http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~eberdahl/Satellite). Participants are encouraged (but by no means required) to bring their own laptop computers and/or musical instruments.