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Creative Computing – Week 5 – Sound Generation Pt2 – 03/04/08

This week has been quite difficult. I seem fresh out of ideas and keep running into annoying brick walls, such as misplacing commas that take an hour to find. The concepts presented seem so fluid in classroom discussion. It is not until one attempts to go it alone that the pain begins.

After many unsuccessful attempts to get something interesting out of the Blip Ugen, I settled for an RLPF and some Saw and Sin Osc’s for the first patch. MouseX and Y are used to control frequency and ‘rq’ (of the RLPF) respectively.

Patch 2 is an exploration of Tri wave arpeggios using an EnvGen envelope generator in conjunction with the .round method to create continuous arpeggios with the handy .circle method that can be called on EnvGen’s internal ‘Env’ object.

Patch 3 looks at the dual power of SyncSaw, modulating its frequency with an LFPulse that in turn has its own frequency and pulse width modulated by individual SyncSaw Ugens.

Patch 4 is my nod to the awe-inspiring clout of the Mix.fill method. Using the sine wave combiner ‘Klang’ I have created some terrifying cluster chords.


Click here to link to online folder containing Mp3 examples and .rtf SC files.


Reference:

Haines, Christian. “Creative Computing – Week 5 – Sound Generation Pt2.” Lecture presented at Tutorial Room 408, Level 4, Schultz Building, University of Adelaide, 3rd of April 2008.

posted by David J Dowling @ 9:50 PM