The 'Sound Design Toolkit' (SDT) is an open-source (GPLv3) framework for ecologically founded sound synthesis and design. Think of it as a virtual Foley-box! It can simulate various acoustic phenomena arising from solid interactions (e.g. collision, rubbing, rolling, scraping), liquids (e.g. dripping, streaming water), gasses (e.g. explosions, blowing wind), and machines (e.g. combustion engines, electric motors). The library consists of physically informed sound synthesis models, audio processing algorithms and analysis routines.

The SDT is mainly aimed at research and education in 'Sonic Interaction Design' (SID), but it's been successfully used in musical contexts as well.

The SDT sound synthesis algorithms have been implemented according to three main points:

1. auditory perceptual relevance;
2. cartoonification, i.e. simplification and exaggeration of the underlying physics in order to increase both computational efficiency and perceptual clarity;
3. parametric temporal control, which ensures appropriate, natural and expressive articulations of sonic processes.

Developed with the contribution of the following EU-projects: 2001-2003 'SOb' http://www.soundobject.org/ 2006-2009 'CLOSED' http://closed.ircam.fr/ 2008-2011 'NIW' http://www.soundobject.org/niw/ 2014-2016 'SkAT-VG' http://www.skatvg.eu/

Authors and contributors (either programmers or designers) in alphabetical order: Federico Avanzini (feder.nosp@m.ico..nosp@m.avanz.nosp@m.ini@.nosp@m.di.un.nosp@m.imi..nosp@m.it) Stefano Baldan (singi.nosp@m.ntim.nosp@m.e@gma.nosp@m.il.c.nosp@m.om) Nicola Bernardini Gianpaolo Borin Carlo Drioli (carlo.nosp@m..dri.nosp@m.oli@u.nosp@m.niud.nosp@m..it) Stefano Delle Monache (s.del.nosp@m.lemo.nosp@m.nache.nosp@m.@tud.nosp@m.elft..nosp@m.nl) Delphine Devallez Federico Fontana (feder.nosp@m.ico..nosp@m.fonta.nosp@m.na@u.nosp@m.niud..nosp@m.it) Laura Ottaviani Stefano Papetti (stefa.nosp@m.no.p.nosp@m.apett.nosp@m.i@zh.nosp@m.dk.ch) Pietro Polotti (pietr.nosp@m.o.po.nosp@m.lotti.nosp@m.@con.nosp@m.ts.it) Matthias Rath Davide Rocchesso (david.nosp@m.e.ro.nosp@m.cches.nosp@m.so@u.nosp@m.nipa..nosp@m.it) Stefania Serafin (sts@c.nosp@m.reat.nosp@m.e.aau.nosp@m..dk) Marco Tiraboschi (marco.nosp@m..tir.nosp@m.abosc.nosp@m.hi@u.nosp@m.nimi..nosp@m.it)

Contact: Sound.nosp@m.Desi.nosp@m.gnToo.nosp@m.lkit.nosp@m.@gmai.nosp@m.l.co.nosp@m.m

This file is part of the Sound Design Toolkit (SDT).

The SDT is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The SDT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the SDT. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

The official SDT distribution contains copy of the GNU General Public License in the file COPYING.txt