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+# Final Year Project Max/MSP Prototype
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+A project to prototype audio descriptor driven granular sound mosaicing.
+Written in Max/MSP and was created as a prototype to test the effects of matching audio grains using different descriptor analysis.
+The full project will now be reimplemented in the SPPySound project with a number of improvments needed to produce the final product