Welcome To Sonic Field

Dreaming Of Sonic Fields

This blog is actually designed as a reference manual, patch example and discussion area for Sonic Field now that it is available under AGPL.

Sonic Field is an audio processor and synthesis engine written and conceived by Dr Alexander J Turner. 

I have no idea is anyone other than myself will want to use or contribute to Sonic Field. It would be great if some did, but not a problem otherwise. This blog still acts as a major resource for myself as a place to record how to create particular sounds and effects and the subtleties of the many processors which are contained in Sonic Field.

Sonic Field is 100% pure Java.

I personally use it on Windows, Linux (Ubuntu) and Mac (Mountain Lion). I see no reason it would not work on any platform which is Java 7 compliant. Sonic Field does not do anything very special and it does not rely on any native libraries. It does not have any platform specific code and should always run without any recompilation of its code or any alteration of Sonic Field patches.

Note: Sonic Field is not a release product or even in a release cycle. At any one time some of it will not work. However, I am slowly moving it over to a fully unit tested framework and once that is in place it should enter a "if it ain't broken now - it will continue to work" mode!

Some Links:
Sonic Field - the main website
Sonic Field Of Dreams - a collection of compositions
Sonic Field Examples - more examples including audio processing as well as synthesis

Sonic Field Download - the AGPL source code and compiled code (pending - later today!)
Nerds-Central - the my personal blog which has a load of stuff about Sonic Field on it
Nerds-Central On Youtube - many Sonic Field renderings are recorded here plus other audio and software related stuff.

Here is an introduction to Sonic Field Patch Layout: