In the past, Soundium has been used as a rapid prototyping and research platform for many digital art and entertainment applications. Soundium is now available for download.
The Soundium software as a whole consists of two parts: The Soundium management console which consists of
- a graphical control and programming environment for state manipulation,
- a interactive design environment,
- a scripting engine,
- a media manager for media annotation and retrieval,
- support for collaborative environments
- automatic software configuration, media handling
- an extensible resource access and management system:
- file system
- web resources (including web page grabbing / portal login)
- e-mail (POP3 / IMAP)
- OBEX (USB, IrDA, Bluetooth)
- AT commands (USB, IrDA, Bluetooth)
- Nokia PhoNet
- Microsoft ActiveSync
- USB card reader
The Decklight processing engine consists of
- a highly customisable and modular real-time media processing environment,
- a unit for automated, multi-threaded rendering of different media types,
- a programming environment for straight-forward integration of processing units and media types, also through 3rd party libraries,
- a large set of existing processing units, e.g., scene and video processing graph, audio and music processing, speech processing, various types of I/O (TCP/IP, HTTP, bluetooth, MIDI, etc.).
Please remember: The Soundium platform has a strong research background, and as such, the software is not designed for end users. It is however possible to create production environments targeted at public usage, as it has been done by us in terms of several projects (e.g., the Digital Marionette, Rip My Disk, etc.)
Currently, the documentation is constantly expanded, but still incomplete ("The code is the documentation" in the words of Niklaus Wirth).
At this point, you may proceed with the following steps:
- Repositories: Soundium / Decklight are for the moment not released as tarballs. You will need a Subversion login / password. If you dont have one yet, please contact us.
- Installation: Gives you information on requirements of Soundium / Decklight, and how to install it.
- Usage: Gives you some information about starting and using Soundium / Decklight.
- Publications: Scientific papers and talks related to the Soundium platform.
