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Title: PatchWork: A Computer-Assisted Composition Software
Post by: phraposo on March 02, 2021, 01:51:28 PM

Hi everyone!
     I'm in a difficult task. I'm trying to find the software PatchWork, first released in 1993 at IRCAM.
Anyone knows how to find it?

Thanks in advance.

Best,
PHRaposo

Title: Re: PatchWork: A Computer-Assisted Composition Software
Post by: rvense on March 03, 2021, 03:07:09 PM

The predecessor of Max? I'm not sure it ever left IRCAM. Maybe you can find contact info of someone who was there.

Title: Re: PatchWork: A Computer-Assisted Composition Software
Post by: phraposo on March 04, 2021, 08:06:42 AM

Exactly. In fact it was the predecessor of OpenMusic and PWGL. I'm already in contact with some members of IRCAM, but it is very difficult to find.

Best,
phraposo

Title: Re: PatchWork: A Computer-Assisted Composition Software
Post by: dr bu on March 04, 2021, 01:39:31 PM

Non-tested..

Title: Re: PatchWork: A Computer-Assisted Composition Software
Post by: phraposo on March 07, 2021, 08:00:39 PM

Thank you very much!
    I'll test it and post here the results!

May I ask where did you find it?

Best,
PHRaposo

Title: Re: PatchWork: A Computer-Assisted Composition Software
Post by: phraposo on March 21, 2021, 11:11:49 AM

Hi,
I've mixed the file with others sources (MCL and MIDI) and its working perfectly on Qemu (MacOS 9.2).

Thanks again!

Title: Re: PatchWork: A Computer-Assisted Composition Software
Post by: rvense on March 21, 2021, 01:06:31 PM

Very cool! I'll have to give this a spin.

Have you found any other cool software?

One thing I would like to find, there was apparently an SDK of sorts for the Sound Accelerator and possibly AudioMedia cards... references are few and far between, but there are a few articles that mention writing custom DSP code for these early Digidesign cards. I would *love* to see that.

Title: Re: PatchWork: A Computer-Assisted Composition Software
Post by: pmj on March 23, 2021, 07:29:39 AM

Thanks for uploading this, I've only had a quick look at the documentation and a brief play around but it seems like the PW.image in the original dr bu upload needs a registration code from IRCAM, the one from phraposo seems to be pre-registered and ready for use.

There are some interesting modules and tools in there, is it all for controlling external MIDI or does it generate sound?  I've only looked at what seem to be MIDI control patches so far.

Title: Re: PatchWork: A Computer-Assisted Composition Software
Post by: rvense on March 23, 2021, 09:55:31 AM

I don't think this did sound, if it did it'd require extra hardware. We're back in the 68020 era here, I think. IRCAM had some custom boards for their NeXT machines as far as I remember, don't know about Mac.

Title: Re: PatchWork: A Computer-Assisted Composition Software
Post by: phraposo on March 24, 2021, 02:44:39 PM

Hi,

To run with sound support you have to install Qemu Screamer (an experimental build). I've tested on both Windows 10 and MacOS X and it's working.

It's available here:

MacOS X:
https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=52104#p52104

Windows:
https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=9028

Best,
phraposo