CMC Facilities

facilities

CMC Facilities

The Computer Music Center is housed in two separate facilities, one on 125th street and one in the Music Department building on the main Columbia campus. The current facilities include:

Individual Composition Studios	Two large working studios (one at Prentis and one on the main campus) equipped with computers running a variety of operating systems, including Linux, MacOS 9 and MacOS X. Three small single-user studios furnished with Linux and MacOS machines for individual composition work. One analog tape archiving studio for preserving and copying analog reel-to-reel audio tape.
Recording Studio	The CMC Digital Recording Facility is one of the Center's prime compositional tools used in the creation of multimedia and interactive works, combining the power of today's commercial digital studio equipment with the latest real-time computer music applications developed at the Computer Music Center. The combination of new computer tools with the digital recording studio supplies composers with a vast array of tools, influences and ideas to give them an unparalleled compositional paradigm that is endlessly flexible, robust and unique.
Interactive Technologies Lab	The opening of the Computer Music Center's Interactive Lab was heralded by the 1999 Interactive Arts Festival. The Interactive Lab features the latest technologies available for the creation and performance of interactive music and multimedia works. These include custom and commercial software packages, controllers and human-machine interfaces. Commercial interfaces include the DIEM Dance Suit, a Gyro Mouse system, the Bird Sensing System, a Mimio whiteboard controller, Peavey PC1600x MIDI controllers and the NATO and BigEye video tracking systems. The lab also provides facilities for the construction of custom controllers and interfaces using a variety of microcontrollers and sensors.
MIDI Studio	A fully equipped MIDI production studio with a 32-channel mixer, full suite of MIDI software, and numerous synthesizer modules and outboard signal processors.
Software	The latest music and multimedia software currently available for all platforms. Linux-based programs include RTcmix, Ceres3, Mix, csound, pd/gem and many other applications developed at the Computer Music Center. Macintosh software includes MAX/MSP, NATO, BigEye, AudioSculpt, Patchwork, Open Music, Imagine, Lisa, Pro Tools Mix Plus, Waves Gold, Logic, Peak, Antares AutoTune, SFX-Machine, Hyperprism, Orange Vocoder, Ambisone, GRM-Tools, Pandora, TC Tools, Pluggo, Reaktor, NI-Specktral and Dynamo, Unity DS-1 and Retro AS-1, T-Racks, MAX/MSP, SoundHack, MetaSynth, Macromedia Director, Finale, and Final Cut Pro.