[PD] Reproducing the THX deep note in Pd

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Fri, 3/26/10, Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Reproducing the THX deep note in Pd
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 12:37 AM
> 
> 
> Yep I did that as an exercise way back. Lost the code
> and wavs now sorry to say :( 
> 
> But, yes it did show up the weakness of Pd oscils
> when compared to Csound - somewhat muddier, with
> a slight distortion when using so many.
> 
> IIRC its a saw/string like wave and I made it
> bandlimited by filling tables and felt very 
> confident it couldn't be aliasing because
> I calculated no sweeps put any harmonics even 
> close to Nyquist. So, he difference tis kinda
> to do with the small table size or interpolation
> in Pd I think. Of course in Csound it sounds
> gorgeous.  
> 
> a.

Hi Andy,
     Cool!  If you happen to stumble across I'd love to take a look.

I was actually comparing to supercollider, not csound.  But I'm not 
surprised csound did an excellent job synthesizing a sound like that.

-Jonathan

> 
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:43:58 -0700 (PDT)
> Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Reading the whole discussion about "smooth" sounds
> made me think of this 
> > exercise:
> > 
> > http://www.batuhanbozkurt.com/instruction/recreating-the-thx-deep-note
> > 
> > Any Pd peeps interested in trying to reproduce the THX
> sound?  I'd really 
> > be interested in comparing the result to the original,
> as well as the pd 
> > patch to the supercollider code.
> > 
> > -Jonathan
> > 
> > 
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