Sound: Advanced Topics II (GR6611, Spring 2021) week 3

Object Movement and Sound

video of this class

Making our 'ambient' sound better using RTcmix signal-processing; attaching sound to the movable sphere reflecting it's position.

Links

If you're encountering the annoying(!) Apple 'gatekeeper' message about uRTcmix not being able to run because it isn't from a 'signed developer', follow the instructions here to fix the problem.

Here are some links to sound-synthesis tutorials that cover some of the techniques we've been using in class;

Basics of Synthesis and Sound Design -- this has examples of the different waveforms for wavetable (oscillator) synthesis
FM synthesis -- covers the basics of the sound-producing algorithm used in the FMINST RTcmix instrument
the 'plucked string' (Karplus-Strong) algorithm -- this is the algorithm used in the STRUM2 RTcmix instrument; a bit more involved in discussing how it works.
Music and Computers -- an on-line 'book' developed by former CMC-er Douglas Repetto and other good friends that discusses the techniques of computer sound synthesis in general

Class Downloads

g6611-spring2021-week3-maxpatches.zip -- the 'newambient', STRUM2 and FMINST max patches we developed in class
g6611-spring2021-week3-pd-patches.zip -- the equivalent pd patches (note the comments on the first few 'newambient' patches about saving/loading the scripts using external files)
g6611-spring2021-week3-RTcmix_scripts.zip -- the RTcmix text scores from those patches (for use in RTcmixShell or 'standalone' RTcmix)
g6611-spring2021-week3-Unity.zip -- the basic Unity project with the moving sphere and the new! improved! ambient sound
g6611-spring2021-week3-Unity-STRUM2.zip -- the Unity project with the STRUM2 notes correlated with the height of the moving sphere
g6611-spring2021-week3-Unity-FMINST.zip -- the Unity project using the carrier and modulator frequencies of the FMINST RTcmix instrument controlled by the height and left/right position of the sphere

Assignment

+ make a very simple project with a sound!