Dear Forum members, we wish you a very happy and prosperous 2026! We now have 150,000 members worldwide! Thank you for contributing to this community of sound and music technology enthusiasts. Find updates to our software and new tutorials on the forum.ircam.fr website and on our new showcase forum.ircam.fr/shop We look forward to seeing you at our annual meeting in Paris, which will be held from March 18 to 21. Don't wait to register as places are limited! | | Let's rewind 2025 ! Relive the highlights of 2025: from Paris to Taipei via Barcelona, Latvia, and Burgundy... | | FORUM STUDIO Session #4 - MOLÉCULE Relive the exceptional performance by French artist Molécule, broadcast live from Studio 5 at Ircam! An iconic figure in nomadic electronic music, Molécule offered us a binaural audio session using technologies from the ACIDS project (Rave et After): SKataRT, Spat/Panoramix, and SoMax2. | | | | | To learn more about the work between the artist and Ircam's research teams, as well as an overview of the technologies used in this collaboration, check out the exclusive interview between Romain De La Haye, aka Molécule, and researcher Philippe Esling (available in French only). | | | | | IRCAM Forum Workshops Paris / Enghien-les-Bains 18 → 21 March 2026 This year, Ircam and the Centre des Arts (CDA) are joining forces to produce a unique event that brings together sound professionals, researchers, international artists, and the general public. Topics: - Sound interaction Music and movement
- Sound design
- Sound processing
- 3D sound immersion
- Improvised generative music
Discover the highlights of this edition! The full program will be published on February 20. Registration is open, but places are limited! | | | | | NEW ASAP TUTORIAL - PSYCHO FILTER Discover “Psycho Filter,” the ASAP plugin that lets you draw shape filters on the sound spectrogram and control their gain and fades. The sound representation and transformation effects interface made possible by the ARA 2 plugin extension allow you to create highly complex and precise surface filters to reduce or increase specific parts of the spectral components of sound. | | | | | NEW RELEASE : PARTIELS v2.4.0 Good news: Partiels v2.4.0 is now available, a new version that further extends interoperability with external environments and introduces several improvements in file management, editing, and export workflows. Read more.... | | | | | NEW RELEASE : OPENMUSIC 7.7 Mark the release of OpenMusic 7.7, one of Ircam's most downloaded software programs, available on macOS (ARM and Intel), Windows, and Linux. This version introduces a wide range of new features, including full support for ornamentation in score editors, as well as new internal score editors, keys, tunings, additional classes and methods, and improved interactive workflows. Read more... | | | | | | |