# Hi Steven and everyone,
# Once I tried to make a Scanned Synthesis program. Basically it was a two dimensional spring-mass system, where one can able to put different masses on a canvas and connect them with springs of different spring constants.
# Than an algorithm will be defined for creating a wavetable. (this table will be scanned with given frequency, basically it is a wavetable oscillator) For example, N masses are put on x axis with same distance between them and are connected each other with springs. They are constraint to move only on y direction. So one can use the y coordinates of the masses as the samples of the wavetable.
# The program may have different interaction modes (adding, deleting, adjusting connecting masses and pushing, moving, hitting, hammering them) So one can interactively play with the system and see the dynamics.
# But I stucked at some point. I created 128 masses, and used 4-point interpolation in the wavetable, but can't get a clear sound. I thought that 128 points are not enough. But more masses makes the controlling harder. And decided that my project was useless :-)
# I tried different ways to produce sound with this program. One is to use JavaSound API. This way is good to use it as standalone program.
# Another way is to send the values of the wavetable to a sound synthesis program. I sent the data using OSC to Pure Data, put it in an array and played the array using [tabread4~] This scheme worked very well. Maybe better than using JavaSound API, because that API hasn't got any high level audio processing units. Writing everything yourself is hard.
# Csound can use OSC too: http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/OSCNetwork.html So I think someone may be interested in my half-work. I'm attaching some earlier experiment examples I've done. You have to have Java JRE to run them. This is only for you to see what the program is intended to do.
# If I make a well running example which makes a connection between this program and a sound producing csound patch I'll send it to the list.
# Good night!
-ugur guney-

On 9/6/07, Steven Yi <stevenyi@gmail.com > wrote:

Hi All,

I saw this product "Scanned Synth Pro" today:

http://www.humanoidsounds.co.uk/products.html

and found that it made some nice Scanned Synthesis sounds, I'd imagine
very capable of being made in Csound as well.

This made me think we should have a Scanned Synthesis contest or maybe
a just a monthly "let's make interesting sounds with x" topic. =)

steven
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