[PD] Analog/good-sounding oscillators in PD

[Jamie Bullock]

On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:13:35 +0200
derek holzer <derek at x-i.net> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> cyborgk at nocturnalnoize.com wrote:
> 
>  > 1. Does anyone have any good, "analog-sounding" oscillators already
>  > created? I guess I only need saw, PWM square, and triangle, but they need
>  > to sound GOOD (like Reaktor, basically).
> 
> The best oscillator sounds I've gotten out of PD have been from 
> [plugin~] and the BLOP LADSPA plugins. They are bandwidth-limited so you 
> don't get any aliasing, which is the weakness of most any other way of 
> doing it in PD, and the aliasing is probably what makes it the most 
> "digital sounding". Linux only for now, I afraid. At least until 
> [plugin~] gets ported to OSX correctly at least,

Actually, [dssi~] supports LADSPA plugins now, and is [plugin~] compatible in most respects (i.e it supports 'listplugins', 'info' etc. in a similar way). It compiles and has binaries for OS X. Main difference is that if you want 20 sine waves, you just do [dssi~ sine_faaa 20], and the inlets and outlets get created for you.

Jamie 


> but they sound pretty 
> "Reaktor-like"(tm). I use the [vcf~] filters, and they are passable but 
> not great. You could also look into the [blosc] external, but I've never 
> used it.
> 
> best,
> d
> 
>