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The ixiQuarks tools are divided into the following categories: basic utilities, instruments, effects and filters. These tools all manipulate audio on audio channels and the idea is that the user routes audio from one tool to another, like connecting guitar effect pedals together. There are 52 Audio Channels by default, but that can be changed easily in the preference file. The sound channel can be stereo or mono defined by the radio buttons on the bottom of the quarks browser.

The quarks browser shows the respective categories with lines in between. By pressing the “open” button or hitting “Return” you open the tool.

Many of the instruments in ixiQuarks support Wacom tablet (for pressure) so we recommend trying it out with a tablet. We are working on support for any hardware interface for the instruments.

utilities: AudioIn, Recorder, Player, BufferPool, PoolManager, FreqScope, WaveScope, EQMeter, MixerNode + Amp, TrigRecorder

instruments: SoundScratcher, StratoSampler, Mushrooms, Predators, Gridder, BufferPlayer, GrainBox, PolyMachine, ScaleSynth

The effects are the typical effects that you can think of: Delays, various reverbs, distortion, chorus, octave (pitch shifter), tremolo, equalizer, combvocoder, randompanner, multidelay and various weird effect (lots in development).

The effects have an inbus (the audio channel that it listens to) and an outbus (the audio channel that it sends its sound out on). There is normally an effect level and a dry level in each effect, allowing you to mix the original sound out with the effect output.

The effects can be added at the head of an audio channel (so it’s located at the top of the audio stream) or at the tail of it (where it filters everything that goes through the channel).

The filters are of the most basic filter types: Band pass filter, low pass filter, high pass filters, resonant low and high pass, resonant filter and klank filters.

Just as with the effects, you can take in any audio channel and output the filtered sound on any audio channel. There is a filtered sound level and the level of the dry sound itself. It can be useful.

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filed under the Computer Aided Music, Generative category.