Hi everyone,
Attached is a simple nine-oscillator additive synth experiment in PD. It has two interesting features:
- The tuning is initially that of the ordinary harmonic series
(2/1,3/2,4/3,5/4, etc.) However, the tuning can be changed, with interesting results. 2. A line~ object is used to control the amplitude of individual oscillators, and the length of the ramp time can be set. This allows one to create constantly mutating timbres.
Now, what I'd be curious to know is how I can get amplitude values in order to do cheap simulations of various instruments (flute, cello, etc.). I know this can be done with fft's, but I don't know how to get a simple list of values between 0-1 that I can just plug into my additive synth. I'm sure you can do that simply in PD, I just don't understand how.
What I really wish, is that I knew how to use SPEAR to do this kind of thing.
~David