# Hi,<br># Recently I heard the name of Gabor, a phyisict who had applied the idea of quanta in acoustics. I didn&#39;t read any of his papers but as I understand what I read about him, he tried to set the mathematical basis of producing any sound from &quot;tiny sound particles&quot;. And today this idea is called &quot;granular synthesis&quot;. There is a book about it &quot;Microsound&quot; by Curtis Roads. I will look at the book and investigate the idea further.
<br># Here, I&#39;m attaching some patches about the subject which I studied this morning and want to share with you :-). there is a unit generator which produces sinusoidal oscillations enveloped with gaussian distribution curve. (
kleineWelle.pd) The output is a small wave packet. (you can also look at kleineWelle-help.pd) metroWelle, produces periodic wave packets. [metroWelle length_of_wave_packet freq_of_osc period] granulator.pd is the main patch and the area for free study. You can add more metroWelle&#39;s and listen to their sum.
<br># This is a very primitive kind of granular synthesis. As I now realized granular synthesis needs enormous control parameters. Preparing every wave packet by hand is very hard.<br># Have a nice day!<br>-ugur guney-<br>