"standard mic input since who knows when on laptops " should be stereo and make available 2 ch for input. what kind of modifications if any are needed to say make SMECK work with only 2 pickups 1 per 2 strings what are pickup direct to pc mic input winding suggestions? or forget it just use piezos? itchin 2 jam soon almost SMECKABLE in honor(plus a life long post adolescent dream to inteface the strings with the counting machine and millers new website pic) of my grandmother whose last living photo was taken with my unfinished bass, it will get done!
Just guessing here...
Try putting strings 1+3 in one channel and 2+4 into the other, and then don't play chords :)
The pitch tracking in the guitar version of smeck uses window sizes of 1024 and 2048 for pitch tracking - you'll probably have to increase those for bass (and anyway I don't know if pitch tracking will ever be stable on bass!) Also there's a bonk~ object detecting attacks that will need tweaking.
"normally" wound pickups make output that's too hot for PC mic inputs, but if you wind less you'll get much worse signalnoise. Maybe wind as much as you can (without sacrificing string separation) and then either use a transformr to drop the voltage or else a resistor bridge. But try it straight first, maybe it will just work.
cheers Miller
On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 01:41:24PM -0400, Billy Stiltner wrote:
"standard mic input since who knows when on laptops " should be stereo and make available 2 ch for input. what kind of modifications if any are needed to say make SMECK work with only 2 pickups 1 per 2 strings what are pickup direct to pc mic input winding suggestions? or forget it just use piezos? itchin 2 jam soon almost SMECKABLE in honor(plus a life long post adolescent dream to inteface the strings with the counting machine and millers new website pic) of my grandmother whose last living photo was taken with my unfinished bass, it will get done!
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re: Miller Puckette said "(and anyway I don't know if pitch tracking will ever be stable on bass!)"
27hz, 27" scale JI Harry Partch FTW
finally getting to play with SMECK it's nice with the fretless guitar, using a strat pickup wired directly to a 1/8" jack since there is no faraday cage around the guitar am picking up some hum, from the computer fan as well as 60hz, reading documentation to try and track down the filters, found the fft graph its a long graph, great!. On Sep 10, 2016 10:30 AM, "Billy Stiltner" billy.stiltner@gmail.com wrote:
re: Miller Puckette said "(and anyway I don't know if pitch tracking will ever be stable on bass!)"
27hz, 27" scale JI Harry Partch FTW
played with it in the park in town, does good, really quick low latency with smeck, even with unedited configuration for one pickup. tried guitarix, tuner thing, doesnt send midi without edit and recompiling, the tuner is smooth though, rackarack does send midi but with latency noticeable, no way to adjust for just intonation but if u choose appropriate just scale in midi receiving application the midi triggering does well for matching the frequency being slightly off from equal but just. there is false triggering with rackarack and low string dropped to c. On Oct 14, 2016 3:31 AM, "Billy Stiltner" billy.stiltner@gmail.com wrote:
finally getting to play with SMECK it's nice with the fretless guitar, using a strat pickup wired directly to a 1/8" jack since there is no faraday cage around the guitar am picking up some hum, from the computer fan as well as 60hz, reading documentation to try and track down the filters, found the fft graph its a long graph, great!. On Sep 10, 2016 10:30 AM, "Billy Stiltner" billy.stiltner@gmail.com wrote:
re: Miller Puckette said "(and anyway I don't know if pitch tracking will ever be stable on bass!)"
27hz, 27" scale JI Harry Partch FTW
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