[PD] Analog/good-sounding oscillators in PD

[cyborgk at nocturnalnoize.com]

I'm wondering if you could use waveshaping to introduce this type of
distortion, and gradually morph the waveshape itself overtime. Anyone know
of an approach to this?

Is there any recommended waveshaping that might follow the oscillator to
add a little nonlinearity? Or most analog sounding distortion that is in
PD?

Another question: how does one gradually morph between two wavetables?

Finally, I must say that the patches from Frank B. and David G. are
exactly what I needed... Running through the moog~ filter, I'm now getting
a much better starting sound. I think that if I was to add dual-osc detune
with slight pitch drift, they would start to sound fairly musical. I hope
I can include them in my project, with their permission.

~David


> On 4/6/06, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
>>
>> Besides foldover, which can be fought, there also is another area of
>> getting "good" sounding analogish oscillators: Analog gear tends to
>> have certain distortions an irregularites, that people tend to like
>> and to associate with that "warm" analog feeling. I guess, Reaktor may
>> introduce some of this stuff as well. There is a LADSPA plugin, forgot
>> its name, by Steve Harris which has a "warmth" control to introduce
>> such distortions, but I think, these are hard to model and would need
>> a lot of fiddling. Anyways static waveforms always tend to sound a bit
>> digital, so finding ways to make the sounds dynamic often is useful.
>
> I wonder how practical it would be to have several tables, crossfade
> between them, and change one while crossfading between the other two
> or whatever.  I'm thinking if they're fairly small tables, just a few
> periods, then the changes would sound pretty smooth.
> If the switch between them is precise, though, maybe crossfading isn't
> necessary... Just two tables, and change one while the other is
> playing.
>
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