Bring Your Own Control Structures

• BYO control structures are to spectral sound descriptions what unit generators are for time domain signals.
• BYO is a layer between high level programming tools (such as IRCAM/Opcode's MAX [Puckette & Zicaralli 90], Matlab, and the Apple Newton) and interpolated additive synthesis
• BYO controls must be:
• efficient, because they are executed every frame for every partial
• easy to write, because musicians will always need control functions that are not already available