New December 9, 2006
CornBucket is a Csound score generator that creates "clouds" of sonic grains -- short snippets of sound that often blur together and are perceived as a single sound. CornBucket allows you to draw functions of time for several different parameters that guide the evolution of a granular cloud. The functions you draw can be one or more cycles of a simple waveform (sine, triangle, etc.), multiplicative combinations of several simple waveforms, or can be hand drawn. Once you are satisfied with your functions, just hit "Go" and CornBucket calculates all of the parameters for each grain and writes a text score to disk.
CornBucket was written by Tom Erbe of the UCSD Dept. of Music. He is also the author of the famous Mac sound manipulation program Soundhack. Tom was gracious enough to provide source code with his original distribution of CornBucket and to allow me to distribute this updated version as well. He just asks that it "remains free and open."
CornBucket 1.02 is a port of CornBucket 1.01 to Apple's Carbon framework -- basically, it now runs "natively" on MacOS X and continues to run on MacOS 8 and 9 if you have CarbonLib installed. I have not changed the interface since the previous version. I only made the necessary changes to get it running on OS X and fixed a few minor bugs along the way. If you still have an older Macintosh computer, you may be interested in Tom's version 1.01 which is available for PowerPC or 68K Macs running older versions of the MacOS (I think it probably works under System 6 and up).
Download: CornBucket-1.02.img.bin (264K)
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Anthony Kozar
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Last modified December 18, 2007.