Berlin, Monday, 19 Jan. 2004.
The Litter Power package, the most comprehensive collection of random number generators and noise sources for the Max/MSP audio and MIDI processing environment, is now available for Windows XP.
Today's release of the Starter Pack is just a start: Litter Power Pro/W should be made available by the end of the month, as will the Mac OS editions of the version 1.5 release.
Please note: the Litter documentation is still pending a rewrite and currently shows its Macintosh-based heritage through its terminology and certain assumptions. Also, the most recent enhancements to individual Litter objects have not yet found their way into the reference manual. The Litter Power Starter Pack/W is being made available today with the status "final candidate" in order to provide WMax users with the opportunity to start using Litter objects as soon as possible. The Installation Guide and the on-line documentation (.help files) are both up-to-date, and rest assured that the reference manual will be updated as soon as possible.
As Margaret Cahill writes in Computer Music Journal, "once you have used Litter, even for a short length of time, you will wonder how you ever managed without it."
The Starter Pack consists of the following objects:
- lp.bernie
- Bernoulli distribution of random numbers
- lp.c2p~
- Cartesian-to-polar conversion
- lp.ginger
- I Ching
- lp.linnie
- Linear distribution of random numbers
- lp.nn~
- Signal degradation
- lp.norm
- Gaussian distribution of random numbers
- lp.p2c~
- Polar-to-cartesian conversion
- lp.pfff
- Brownian distribution of random numbers
- lp.pfff~
- Brown noise
- lp.poppy
- Chaos: population growth model
- lp.poppy~
- Chaotic noise
- lp.scampf
- Scale and map floats
- lp.scampi
- Scale and map integers
- lp.shhh
- Uniform (white) distribution of random numbers
- lp.shhh~
- The whitest noise on the street
- lp.sigma
- Add numbers, with up to 255 inlets
- lp.sss
- Pink distribution ("Scientific American" algorithm)
- lp.sss~
- Pink noise (w/ the "Scientific American" algorithm)
- lp.stacey
- Statistics
- lp.tata
- More random than random: all bits random, far longer cycle
- lp.tim~
- Time-domain signal mutation
- lp.trrr~
- "Triangular" dithering noise
The Litter Power Starter Pack is available free of charge as a 1.4MB download.
Windows users can pre-order Litter Power Pro/W by purchasing a Litter Power Artistic license today through the Kagi online store. All current Litter Pros will be automatically upgraded to a cross-platform license when both the Mac and Windows 1.5 Pro editions are made available. Pricing for the Windows and cross-platform Pro Bundles has not yet been finalized, but will not be less than the current Litter Pro for Mac OS Bundle.
Enjoy Litter!
Contact: Peter Castine