TouchDesigner Electronic Music Studio – Owen Kirby

* Video starts at 3:30
Workshop: TouchDesigner Electronic Music Studio
Example Files: https://tinyurl.com/Summit2019-OwenKirby

0:00 – Introduction
3:30 – Audio synthesis in TouchDesigner
17:50 – EQs, filters, and effects
22:30 – MIDI and sequencing
27:43 – Audio recording and playback
31:14 – Troubleshooting
34:10 – Synth Builder Components – available here: https://www.owenkirby.net/components
41:40 – SuperSynth
52:20 – MonoSequencer
1:11:50 – Side topics
1:35:00 – Synth Builder Components
1:53:15 – Old audio-visuals
2:02:07 – LaunchControlXL Component
2:05:40 – Questions and exploring techniques

During this workshop participants will learn key techniques for putting together a complete electronic music and audio-synthesis workflow inside TouchDesigner through the use and study of several pre-built components. These will include midi sequencers, a polyphonic synthesizer, a drum-machine and sampler as well as various audio effects.Once participants are familiar with some of these basics, they will be given time to coordinate the development of an audiovisual jam/performance using these components and added functionalities.

Instructor: Owen Kirby
Owen Kirby is an audio-visual artist from Montreal, Canada with a background in science, film-making and electro-acoustic music composition. He studied cinema at Collège Champlain and went on to study electroacoustic music composition at Concordia University.

His love of electronic sound and real-time video workflows led him to spend time exploring the audio-synthesis side of TouchDesigner; discovering techniques and workflows which he documents and shares through his YouTube series: Electronic Ape Friends.

A keen biology enthusiast, he is in the process of proving the first partial albino morph of a local species of isopod and has created introductory myrmecology kits which have sold side by side with his TouchDesigner components on his Etsy store: StareIntoTheFire.

Website: https://www.owenkirby.net/