[PD] [PD-announce] new polyphonic granular synthesizer for Pd

[Phil Stone]

Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Phil Stone hat gesagt: // Phil Stone wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm pleased to announce the availability of [polygrainsynth], a
>> polyphonic granular synthesizer built on the [a_grain] abstraction
>> written by Jamie Bullock.  Much like its older sibling [polywavesynth],
>> [polygrainsynth] does automatic allocation and management of n voices,
>> where n is limited only by your available processing power.
>>     
>
> That's very nice, and has exemplary documentation!
>   

Thank you, Frank.  The object wouldn't have been possible without 
[polypoly] and several other of your excellent contributions.

> I didn't look at the internals yet, but it occured to me, that the
> dependency on OSC probably could be factored out (if you'd want to) by
> using Pd's standard [route]. The control messages would look like: 
> "(name) grain env atk 12" then and would include a tree of [route]s.
> To make that OSC-targetable one could use a separate abstraction. The
> disadvantage would be that one looses pattern matching.
>   

That's an intriguing idea.  I *do* like the pattern matching, but it's 
not necessary at the interior level of the synthesizers.  I wonder what 
the performance differences are, if any, between [routeOSC] and [route]?

It's tempting, because with your recent work towards a vanilla-ready 
filter, it's getting more likely that [svf~] could be replaced with 
something non-external, and then my synthesizers could be completely 
external-free.


Phil
www.pkstonemusic.com