Hi, I am happy to announce the first release of WONDER. The program WONDER (Wave field synthesis of new dimensions of electronic music in realtime) is designed to provide an interface between a wave field synthesis system and the software or hardware composers and performers of electronic music are used to. The program is still in development and trying to reach its eventual goal step by step. The current version (v2.0) allows the user to either create a composition for the movement of the sound sources in his composition or to control the movements in realtime, either via the gui or via open sound control. The program is released under the GNU General public license. Feedback and bug reports are very welcome: wonder@xxxxxxxxxx The program is created by Marije Baalman and Daniel Plewe (OSC implementation) and is developed in the Electronic Studio of the TU Berlin. WONDER is created for Linux (X11) and uses the Free Qt-Libraries (v3.0.2b or higher), libOSC++ libraries and BruteFIR (v0.99n or higher). Basic installation info can be found in the package in the INSTALL text. The README file lists some extra requirements and necessary adaptations for BruteFIR. Furthermore a soundcard with a lot of outputs and a lot of speakers are required, to make practical use of the program. At: http://gigant.kgw.tu-berlin.de/~baalman/ you will find a description of what Wave Field Synthesis is and under: program - download you will be able to download the program as a tar-ball. The manual with screenshots is also online. The software is by far not yet bug-free, but in my experience it is usable and generally it does not crash when running the audio (except if external conflicts happen or the processor is overloaded). See the KNOWBUGS file that comes with the package... sincerely, Marije Baalman --
