Building SoundSpotter from source on OSX and Windows
A short, practical walk-through for checking out the mp7c tree and building the SoundSpotter external for Max/MSP and PureData.
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SoundSpotter
Real-Time Music Mashup
SoundSpotter is a Music Information Retrieval (MIR) computer-music object (external) that runs on Windows, OSX and Linux systems. SoundSpotter is Open Source with C and C++ APIs allowing integration into computer-music environments such as Max/MSP, PureData and others. Use the links below to download binaries, patches or source code from SourceForge.
SoundSpotter was written by Michael Casey starting in 2000, with the first open-source version released in 2004. The SoundSpotter search engine grew into a project led by Casey called audioDB, part of the OMRAS2 project.
Download SoundSpotter
| Platform | Max/MSP | PureData | Source Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mac OSX (10.4+) | Max/MSP Intel OSX | PD Intel OSX PD PPC OSX |
sourceforge |
| Windows (2000/XP/Vista/7+) | Max/MSP Windows | PD Windows | sourceforge |
| Linux | sourceforge |
Music Similarity Images
SoundSpotter's matching models can be rendered as visual scores. See the TimbreScores gallery: visualizations of Webern, Xenakis, Denis Smalley and Steve Reich generated from acoustic lexeme models.
News & Notes
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A guest note on how audio matching and careful sound design shape the feel of modern interactive and online entertainment platforms.
Read more »From SoundSpotter to audioDB: scaling similarity search
SoundSpotter matches against a corpus you hold in memory. audioDB asks the next question: what if the corpus is enormous? The answer involves locality-sensitive hashing.
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