English / Deutsch About People ICST Media Library Downloads Publications Courses Events Search Contact Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology ICST – Recent concerts and events Please switch to the german site for our events listing. ICST Summer Courses and Courses 2008/2009 The ICST offers new courses, deadline for inscription is 25. 6. 2008 Digital Sound Generation – a paper by Beat Frei This continuously evolving online document covers methods and industry-grade algorithms for musical synthesizers. It is intended to serve as a developer's reference and to support the upcoming ICST course on synthesizer design in Spring 2008. The preliminary part about oscillators is now provided for download. Ambisonics externals for Max MSP A set of externals for Max/MSP for Ambisonics surround sound processing and source-control in three dimensions. Version 1.2 with new features added is now available. These externals are the result of research and practise using Ambisonics since 2000 and have been tested and used in numerous concerts, compositions and installations.