Spectral Mutation in Soundhack
Larry Polansky, Tom Erbe · Computer Music Journal · 1996
Soundhack is a widely used program available for the Apple Macintosh computer that performs a variety of sound file manipulations. The functions of the program, authored by one of us (Tom Erbe), include sound-file type conversion, spectral dynamic processing, a varispeed/sample rate converter, sound file convolution, ring modulation, a phase vocoder, a binaural filter, and an amplitude analysisand-gain-change module. In Soundhack versions 0.8 and above, the authors have implemented a system of spectral mutation functions that allow for a number of different trans-