pch2csd: an application for converting Nord Modular G2 patches into Csound code
This addresses a niche problem for audio engineers and musicians by providing a tool to revive legacy synthesizer patches, though it is incremental as it applies existing conversion techniques to a specific domain.
The paper tackles the problem of preserving discontinued Nord Modular G2 synthesizer patches by developing pch2csd, an application that converts these patches into Csound code, enabling simulation of the original sound and behavior.
The paper presents the pch2csd project, focused on converting patches of popular Clavia Nord Modular G2 synthesizer into code of Csound language. Now discontinued, Nord Modular G2 left a lot of interesting patches for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition. To give this heritage a new life, we created our project with the hope for being able to simulate the original sound and behavior of Nord Modular.