[PD] "OuterSpace" - an ambient sound generator for PD

[padawan12]

I've really been looking forward to this since you told 
me about it Alberto. You've clearly put a lot of work into
it. The sounds on the demo are amazing, it makes some very
classy deep space/spooky alien noises. And it's most
impressive that you've taken the trouble to make multiple
versions with a proper readme.txt, pdf docos and everything.

Unfortunately I couldn't run it. After throwing a  bucket
of ice water on the sizzling remains of my CPU and opening
the window to let a little smoke out it occured to me that
some kind of dynamic allocation or grouping the bp~ units
into subpatches with a [switch~] would really help those
of us with lower spec machines.

Another thought is that the freeverb~ component is unneccesary.
Freeverb is a quite expensive convolution based unit afaik, and
since the textures are already so very dense you could probably
get just as good results with a few delays. 

I'm not sure how to handle dynamic allocation best. I think I 
would use the cpu load value as a reference and then switch on
each bandpass subpatch in the order 0, 7, 15..... and then
3, 10, 18 ... while cpu < 90% , in that way you cover the whole
spectrum filling out the gaps in between on each pass.

Those are my only grumbles, apart from that its a fantastic
patch for filmic ambience.

Andy





On Mon, 29 May 2006 14:32:22 +0200
"alberto\.zin\@poste\.it" <alberto.zin at poste.it> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> after few months of "spare time" development, I'd like to 
> share with you my first project in PD, which I 
> called "OuterSpace".
> 
> OuterSpace (OS) is an ambient sound instrument for PD 
> capable of generating "natural" sounds like water, wind, 
> fire, chimes and other unusual sounds. It is based on 
> white noise filtered by a bank of 128 (!) bp~ filters, 
> spread across the audio spectrum. 
> The output of each voice (filter) is mixed and 
> reverberated. OuterSpace comes with a GUI made in GriPd 
> and a plain PD gui. OS has save, load, randomize preset 
> capabilities. The idea is very similar to SpaceDrone 
> Reaktor instrument, if you know it.
> 
> I'd be glad if you'd like to try it, any feedback is -> 
> very <- welcome, so I can move it to v1.0 :-). 
> OS was developed and tested under Windows and Linux 
> (except the GriPD GUI in Linux, which I'm not able to run 
> yet!), but should (hopefully) work on Mac too. OS is GPL'd.
> 
> Download it at:
> 
> https://puredata.info/Members/AlbertoZ
> 
> under the download section, together with the pdf and ps 
> docs. An mp3 sample is also there.
> 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Alberto Zin
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> PD-list at iem.at mailing list
> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list