very cool! dreamy, unusual

very cool! dreamy, unusual

Trying to understand the technical description but am always intrigued with how natural and organic electronically generated sounds can be. Is this all software based or any hardware involved?

Trying to understand the technical description but am always intrigued with how natural and organic electronically generated sounds can be. Is this all software based or any hardware involved?

Thanks.

Put simply. The program I wrote takes a sine wave oscillator, modulates its pitch with another. That modulating oscillator is modulated by another and so on until you have 100 oscillators all cascading into one another. The frequency and the amount that each oscillator will affect the next is just a set of random numbers. I decided to write my own software to do this because even doing it in something like MaxMSP would be tedious.

No hardware involved. All software-based. I think a lot of the organic quality comes from the fact that all the sound is comes from randomised sources. The distribution of those random numbers is what tends to determine the likely quality of the sound, but it will usually take a few shots before I get output that I like. A bit of well-tweaked reverb helps as well.

[quote=zabutom]very cool! dreamy, unusual[/quote] Thanks. [quote=NWSPR]Trying to understand the technical description but am always intrigued with how natural and organic electronically generated sounds can be. Is this all software based or any hardware involved?[/quote] Put simply. The program I wrote takes a sine wave oscillator, modulates its pitch with another. That modulating oscillator is modulated by another and so on until you have 100 oscillators all cascading into one another. The frequency and the amount that each oscillator will affect the next is just a set of random numbers. I decided to write my own software to do this because even doing it in something like MaxMSP would be tedious. No hardware involved. All software-based. I think a lot of the organic quality comes from the fact that all the sound is comes from randomised sources. The distribution of those random numbers is what tends to determine the likely quality of the sound, but it will usually take a few shots before I get output that I like. A bit of well-tweaked reverb helps as well. ;)

Oh man, the sounds here are just gorgeous. I love how the "just so" combination of sounds with FM can sound like all kinds of things; birds voice, human voice, classic "synth" sounds, rain, etc. Very cool. I love this piece.

Oh man, the sounds here are just gorgeous. I love how the "just so" combination of sounds with FM can sound like all kinds of things; birds voice, human voice, classic "synth" sounds, rain, etc. Very cool. I love this piece.

Thanks. FM is definitely one of my favourite forms of synthesis. I definitely want to delve into this little project more. Speaking of FM, I’m on the train right now and there is literally a guy behind me with a DX7 on his lap.

[quote=fc]Oh man, the sounds here are just gorgeous. I love how the "just so" combination of sounds with FM can sound like all kinds of things; birds voice, human voice, classic "synth" sounds, rain, etc. Very cool. I love this piece.[/quote] Thanks. FM is definitely one of my favourite forms of synthesis. I definitely want to delve into this little project more. Speaking of FM, I’m on the train right now and there is literally a guy behind me with a DX7 on his lap.

Here is some raw output from the program for anyone who wants to use and abuse.

[url=https://www.dropbox.com/sh/goi05rffn4yumgp/AADOfCgbrbyIGu-Ks_6m3-nOa?dl=0]Here[/url] is some raw output from the program for anyone who wants to use and abuse.

Where was he going without ever knowing... eh that doesn't really work.

[quote=kevanatkins][quote=fc]Oh man, the sounds here are just gorgeous. I love how the "just so" combination of sounds with FM can sound like all kinds of things; birds voice, human voice, classic "synth" sounds, rain, etc. Very cool. I love this piece.[/quote] Thanks. FM is definitely one of my favourite forms of synthesis. I definitely want to delve into this little project more. Speaking of FM, I’m on the train right now and there is literally a guy behind me with a DX7 on his lap. [/quote] Where was he going without ever knowing... eh that doesn't really work.

I love this idea and the result is very nice.

I love this idea and the result is very nice.

Yeah this is awesome. I made a version in SuperCollider:

{ (1..100).inject(0, {|mod| SinOsc.ar(1.exprand(1000), mod * 0.5.rrand(2)); }) ! 2 }.play;

I think I'll make it stereo next

Yeah this is awesome. I made a version in SuperCollider: { (1..100).inject(0, {|mod| SinOsc.ar(1.exprand(1000), mod * 0.5.rrand(2)); }) ! 2 }.play; I think I'll make it stereo next :)

Thanks.

I love the left fold move. Very elegant. I might reimplement similarly with std::accumulate.

[quote=license]I love this idea and the result is very nice.[/quote] Thanks. [quote=license]Yeah this is awesome. I made a version in SuperCollider: { (1..100).inject(0, {|mod| SinOsc.ar(1.exprand(1000), mod * 0.5.rrand(2)); }) ! 2 }.play; I think I'll make it stereo next :)[/quote] I love the left fold move. Very elegant. I might reimplement similarly with std::accumulate.

Oh nice! I am a total C++ noob, but I'm a huge left fold fanboy

[quote=kevanatkins]I love the left fold move. Very elegant. I might reimplement similarly with std::accumulate. [/quote] Oh nice! I am a total C++ noob, but I'm a huge left fold fanboy :)

*yoink*

[quote=kevanatkins][url=https://www.dropbox.com/sh/goi05rffn4yumgp/AADOfCgbrbyIGu-Ks_6m3-nOa?dl=0]Here[/url] is some raw output from the program for anyone who wants to use and abuse. [/quote] *yoink*