[PD] "OuterSpace" - an ambient sound generator for PD
padawan12
padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk
Tue May 30 07:14:02 CEST 2006
I've really been looking forward to this since you told
me about it Alberto. You've clearly put a lot of work into
it. The sounds on the demo are amazing, it makes some very
classy deep space/spooky alien noises. And it's most
impressive that you've taken the trouble to make multiple
versions with a proper readme.txt, pdf docos and everything.
Unfortunately I couldn't run it. After throwing a bucket
of ice water on the sizzling remains of my CPU and opening
the window to let a little smoke out it occured to me that
some kind of dynamic allocation or grouping the bp~ units
into subpatches with a [switch~] would really help those
of us with lower spec machines.
Another thought is that the freeverb~ component is unneccesary.
Freeverb is a quite expensive convolution based unit afaik, and
since the textures are already so very dense you could probably
get just as good results with a few delays.
I'm not sure how to handle dynamic allocation best. I think I
would use the cpu load value as a reference and then switch on
each bandpass subpatch in the order 0, 7, 15..... and then
3, 10, 18 ... while cpu < 90% , in that way you cover the whole
spectrum filling out the gaps in between on each pass.
Those are my only grumbles, apart from that its a fantastic
patch for filmic ambience.
Andy
On Mon, 29 May 2006 14:32:22 +0200
"alberto\.zin\@poste\.it" <alberto.zin at poste.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> after few months of "spare time" development, I'd like to
> share with you my first project in PD, which I
> called "OuterSpace".
>
> OuterSpace (OS) is an ambient sound instrument for PD
> capable of generating "natural" sounds like water, wind,
> fire, chimes and other unusual sounds. It is based on
> white noise filtered by a bank of 128 (!) bp~ filters,
> spread across the audio spectrum.
> The output of each voice (filter) is mixed and
> reverberated. OuterSpace comes with a GUI made in GriPd
> and a plain PD gui. OS has save, load, randomize preset
> capabilities. The idea is very similar to SpaceDrone
> Reaktor instrument, if you know it.
>
> I'd be glad if you'd like to try it, any feedback is ->
> very <- welcome, so I can move it to v1.0 :-).
> OS was developed and tested under Windows and Linux
> (except the GriPD GUI in Linux, which I'm not able to run
> yet!), but should (hopefully) work on Mac too. OS is GPL'd.
>
> Download it at:
>
> https://puredata.info/Members/AlbertoZ
>
> under the download section, together with the pdf and ps
> docs. An mp3 sample is also there.
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Alberto Zin
>
>
>
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