[PD] oscillators (osc~ / cycle~) not working well in FM?

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 05:05:40 CET 2015


moreover, I really doubt there's any particular nuance that comes out of
this... or that a fix would break it. All I know is that it's preventing FM
patches from achieving stable waveforms as they should.

2015-11-24 0:31 GMT-02:00 Matt Barber <brbrofsvl at gmail.com>:

> I usually agree in cases like these, but a sinusoid oscillator with
> built-in DC is not the expected behavior in most any synthesis environment.
> Notice how everyone in this thread was genuinely surprised by this behavior.
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Robert Esler <robert at urbanstew.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I would call this more of a feature than a bug that needs fixing.  I
>> would hope that [osc~] and [cos~] don't change, simply because many of us
>> like these little nuances.
>>   If it is really bothersome then perhaps create a new version, but let’s
>> not change a legacy object.  A simple “fix” might break someone else’s
>> patch.
>>
>> Just my opinion,
>> -Rob
>>
>> Did you make it work in a patch? if so, can you share it? :)
>>
>> Maybe someone could work on a "fix" on the source and send it to miller,
>> perhaps this could be updated for the next version release (0.47).
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> 2015-11-22 19:32 GMT-02:00 Matt Barber <brbrofsvl at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Yeah, so all that really needs to be done is to force symmetry by copying
>> the 0-pi phase inverted to the pi-2pi phase + guard points for [tabosc4~].
>> I did that and it's been stable for 3.5 hours. It wouldn't be too hard to
>> fix this in the Pd source; it would be a marked improvement to [osc~] even
>> with the 512-pt table and linear interpolation.
>>
>>
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