Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Audio Arts 05-09-06

Audio Arts 05-09-06:

For whom the bell tolls…..

Was this bell making process supposed to be much more than pulling the attack time down to the bare minimum and ramping everything else right up? It seems to have worked for me to some extent at least. I have added a second oscillator with a relatively unrelated frequency and amplitude to the simple synth to make it sound a little less pure, but I’m at a bit of a loss as to what else I could do to make it more bell like – it sounds reasonably close - if you’re used to hearing digital pips when you go to church that is……..


Here are sonograms of each bell sound. Mine is on the right. It seems pretty close, although the fundamental looks to have been inverted.

Original recorded bell sound (76 KB Mp3)

My synthetic attempt (84 KB Mp3)


The movie (with sound and monosynth Mozart) is here now, so download it…(3.3Mb Quicktime movie)

Reference:

Christian Haines. "Audio Arts - Bell synthesis". Lecture presented at "Audio Lab - 4th floor, Schulz building, University of Adelaide, 05-09-06.

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