Basic Synthesis Techniques (continued)
We were supposed to have covered non-harmonic synthesis techniques
like FM and AM this week, but we're behind. Oh well! Instead we
discussed a few more wavetable-based approaches like waveshaping,
'vector' synthesis, and pulse-width modulation. We also went over
different types of interpolation in reading wavetables. We'll get
back on track after Michael Klingbeil's presentation next week.
We did explore a completely different way of working with synthetic
timbre for the last half of the class. Bryan presented several
granular-synthesis packages. Links and patches are below.
Links
- ag.granular
-- Adrian Gierakowski's ag.granular.suite
- IRCAM's Max/MSP site
-- this has info about Norbert Schnell's [sogs~] object. We have
and IRCAM Forum license here at the CMC, contact Terry Pender
(mando - at - music.columbia.edu) for info.
- max/MSP granular toolkit
-- very popular set of objects for doing granular work, created by
Nathan Wolek.
Class Downloads
We also disussed waveshaping, the examples we used to demonstrate how
it worked are in the
RTcmix
distribution (or in the "sample scores" section of the [rtcmix~]
help patcher. Check the WAVESHAPE and SHAPE instruments).