thanks everybody.. this goes by far beyond my capabilities, so i decided to turn<br>it around and create a sample-based patch. <br>the basic idea is to control a light installation through sound. 60 neon tubes are controlled
<br>via a custom built max patch. i want to connect the brightness of these tubes to the sound of breathing. my first thought was that it would be easier to deduct data from a<br>patch based on synthesis. after the information i gathered from the list i realize that this
<br>is an immense task that has its focus only next to my intention. so i decided to create a <br>sample based patch. at the moment i am using [fiddle] to read the amplitude of the recorded breath sounds.. however there are some troubles, like its very, very jumpy..
<br>it is also difficult to find a sonically equivalent parameter to "breath in.. breath out".. <br>pitch doesnt work.. [env] only reads the RMS so it does not change too much.. <br>amplitude is close to what we hear as rising and falling, but still very far from the natural
<br>perception.. maybe someone has an idea ? anyways.. i will keep you updated.. : )<br><br>alexandre d. <br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Thomas Grill</b> <<a href="mailto:gr@grrrr.org">
gr@grrrr.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">And if you really want to go into details, beyond PD, you could try PRAAT.
<br><a href="http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/">http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/</a><br><br>greetings, Thomas<br><br>Andy Farnell schrieb:<br>> Breathing could be as easy as pushing a bit of<br>> rising and falling noise through some parallel
<br>> bandpass filters.<br>><br>> To model the human vocal tract, mouth and lungs, and<br>> the air pressure at all places inside is the tricky<br>> bit to make it sound convincing. Is it for singing<br>> or a synthesised instrument like flute?.. because for
<br>> playing an instrument there is forced breathing where<br>> the lips are more closed and that needs a slightly<br>> different model. Open breathing is more related to<br>> singing synthesis, two deep sources to mine are this thesis
<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/SingingSynth.html">http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/SingingSynth.html</a><br>><br>> and this one<br>><br>> <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~moo/thesis/YEK_thesis.pdf">
http://web.media.mit.edu/~moo/thesis/YEK_thesis.pdf</a><br>><br>> What you probably are *not* interested in are<br>> fof, paf, vosim type methods, which are more<br>> for voiced sounds. One that would be good<br>
> for breathing is vocoder (filter bank).<br>> If you have a good tract model it's gonna be good for<br>> breathing, replace the voiced oscillator with different<br>> kinds of noise. There's a pvoc example in the Pd help files.
<br>> Take snapshots for "oooh" and "aah" formants and try those<br>> filters with noise. To make it efficient crossfading<br>> between a few fixed filters might be okay. I haven't researched
<br>> it much further, but you'd suppose different forces are at<br>> work breathing in and out, so they will be different sounds<br>> with different noise/pressure curves.<br>><br>><br>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:13:40 +0200
<br>> "alexandre r. decoupigny" <<a href="mailto:alex.decoupigny@gmail.com">alex.decoupigny@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>>> hello there...<br>>><br>>> i want to build a patch that synthesizes
<br>>> the sound of breathing.. i know some pd<br>>> and some synthesis.. any idea where and<br>>> how to start ?<br>>><br>>> best<br>>><br>>> alexandre<br>>> --<br>>> alexandre r. decoupigny
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