[PD] about fiddle~

Miller Puckette mpuckett at imusic1.ucsd.edu
Thu Jan 17 17:19:18 CET 2008


I don't know if this helps, but I wrote a paper, "score following using the
sung voice" that has some info on that:

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Publications//icmc95.ps

cheers
Miller

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:06:59PM +0100, matteo sisti sette wrote:
> First of all thanks to everybody for the clarifications and
> suggestions I received.
> 
> 
> 2008/1/11, Miller Puckette <mpuckett at imusic1.ucsd.edu>:
> 
> > I don't know any canonical way to decide when a note is finished, except
> > to notice that a new note has started.
> 
> That's very interesting: it reveals to me how wrong my way of
> conceiving the whole thing from the beginning is.
> 
> I still can't understand too well how it works. I mean, apart from
> what I was trying to do and no matter whether fiddle is or isn't
> possibly useful for doing that, I am now simply trying to understand
> just how fiddle works.
> 
> My idea of "understanding" is being able to predict the expected (or
> ideal) behaviour of fiddle in response to a given input.
> 
> For example, how should I expect it to behave if I send it a phasor
> (to say a non-sinusoidal but clean-pitched sound) with a pitch that
> increases slowly but steadily up to several semitones or even octaves?
> What if the same increase in pitch is much faster? How do the
> "vibrato" parameters influence?
> Another example: what about re-attacks? When should I expect a
> repetition of the same note to appear as a repeated pitch on the
> cooked-pitch (first) outlet, and when should I instead expect only a
> bang in the attack outlet?
> 
> Is all this kind of things explained in detail somewhere?
> Maybe all or part of this is not specifical to Fiddle but generar
> pitchtracking theory stuff?
> 
> Or do I have to look at the source code? :scared:
> 
> I did try to play with it and observe in order to find some answers,
> but I'm too lost to be able to draw conclusions from tests (too many
> mutually interfering questions).
> 
> 
> By the way, I had a look at the examples mentioned by Hans Roels (I
> only found example patches, no plain explanations) but I'm afraid my
> uncertainties are at a deeper level.
> 
> Thanks again
> m.
> 
> -- 
> Matteo Sisti Sette
> matteosistisette at gmail.com
> http://www.matteosistisette.com
> 
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