The Sogitec 4X was a digital sound processing workstation developed by
Giuseppe di Giugno
Giuseppe Di Giugno (born 1937 in Benghazi) is an Italian physicist. He graduated with a degree in physics from Rome University in 1961.
Particle physics
From 1961 until 1975, Di Giugno was a researcher in the field of matter-antimatter interactio ...
at
IRCAM
IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music. It is ...
(Paris) in the 1980s. It was the last large hardware processor before the development of the
ISPW
The IRCAM Signal Processing Workstation (ISPW) was a hardware digital signal processor, DSP platform developed by IRCAM and the Ariel Corporation in the late 1980s. In French language, French, the ISPW is referred to as the SIM (''Station d'inform ...
. Later solutions combined control and audio processing in the same computer like
Max/MSP
Max, also known as Max/MSP/Jitter, is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74. Over its more than thirty-year history, it has been used by composers, per ...
. 4X built on the achievements of the earlier
Halaphone, capable of timbre alteration and sound localization.
Nicolas Schöffer
Nicolas Schöffer ( hu, Schöffer Miklós; 6 September 1912 — 8 January 1992) was a Hungarian-born French cybernetic artist. Schöffer was born in Kalocsa, Hungary and resided in Paris from 1936 until his death in Montmartre in 1992.
He ...
was one of the first users to build his composition method
[
] with this computer.
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Computer music
Digital signal processing
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