R: [PD] Scanned Synthesis

Davide Morelli info at davidemorelli.it
Thu Feb 24 13:35:05 CET 2005


your patch is really amazing and enlightening.

can you tell me the dependencies?
I'm using
pd 0.37.3
gem 0.90
on win xp

can't find:
- lb
- maximum
- minimum

I looked for them on pdb but couldn't find them.

everything works but gets too much loud and distorted..

best,
davide.

> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: pd-list-admin at iem.at [mailto:pd-list-admin at iem.at]Per conto di
> cyrille
> Inviato: mercoledì 23 febbraio 2005 13.57
> A: Frank Barknecht
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> Oggetto: Re: [PD] Scanned Synthesis
>
>
>
> hello,
>
> Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > Hallo,
> > cyrille hat gesagt: // cyrille wrote:
> >
> >
> >>i do belive that scan synthesys is more than video->audio or
> audio->video.
> >>
> >>i really belive that "algorythm" -> (audio & video) is more powerfull
> >>(from artistic point of view) than video->audio or audio->video.
> >>
> >>scann synthesys is only a simple exemple of my point of view.
> >
> >
> > The "problem" with the pdp_scan is, that it is hard to control in a
> > directly musical way, IMO.
> well, its a commun problem i think with video analyse tools -> audio
> synthesis . IMHO
>
> > Admittedly it's not the kind of "scanned
> > synthesis" as in Csound. However it is quite interesting to directly
> > hear the results of image operations like blur, which results
> in filtering
> > etc. If you saw Tom perform in Graz: His patch used this kind of idea
> > (IIR).
> >
> > Unfortunatly I don't know very much about the "Csound" scanned
> > synthesis, which can create very nice sounds.
> i did not konw that csound have a scanned synthesys tool.
> i googled,
> http://www.csounds.com/scanned/toot/
> it is very symilar to pmpd.
>
> > It would be cool to have
> > something like this in Pd, but it should be realtime. Your pmpd example
> > patch which fills a table from a model unfortunatly takes ages to fill
> > it on my machine, so this approach seems to be only valid it you can
> > prerender sound (in which case, maybe Taosynth could be more useful).
>
>
> i agree that the non real time audio synthesys exemple is not
> very usefull.
> with the cvs version, you can do the same thing in real time!
> (well, the cvs version is only for test, i think somes stuff will change
> in the future)
>
> but that is not scanned synthesis.
>
> scanned synthesis nead low frequency physical model (20Hz about), and
> use the shape of the model as an audio waveforme.
> so the audio waveforme change every 50ms. this mean that it does not
> nead lot's of cpu for the physical model...
>
> attachement is a scanned synth patch i use live...
> (sorry for the mess)
> you need gem to use it..
>
> cyrille
>
>
> >
> > Ciao
>





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