Hi all,

I've been playing around with this new GUI/MIDI Csound instrument I
designed. It's fairly simple, but fun and with some knob twiddling, you can
really stay busy and engaged for hours.

http://www.akjmusic.com/software/phase_mod_20090930.csd

It's basically a demonstration of phase modulation (fancy FM without nasty
side effects), and uses 2 sines as modulators modulating a single sine
carrier. Each modulator has an ADSR envelope, and so does the carrier. I
also included a 'bqrez' lowpass filter for improved 'acoustic
instrument-like' resonance effects, and there is panning and a
stereo-chorus-like enrichment parameter which, under the hood, is just using
two 'jitter' opcodes for stereo detuning---it makes a huge difference for
spatial enhancement, IMO. 

You may have to edit settings for your system in the header....I'm using
Linux.

Special thanks goes out to Ian McCurdy--his wonderful realtime GUI
collection is what I hacked from to come up with this.

TODOS:

1) I could use help debugging something, as I mentioned
elsewhere----ideally, I want to use FLtext type 1 (default), not type 3
(only dragging the mouse for values incrementing and decrementing), but,
loading the banks and setting presets for some weird reason doesn't work
with FLtext type 1. It just doesn't update, even though the snapshot file
contains the correct saved values......

2) Temperament and scale presets

3) Effects (like delay, RT-convolution reverb, etc)

Best,
AKJ
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Hello Aaron,

Thanks for sharing the instrument, it sounds nice. Quite effective
with a lot of timbral variation using just a few elements.

I'm guessing the FLtext problem relates to a bug in FLtext. It seems I
get the same error with other orchestras using FLtext mode 1.

best
Oeyvind

2009/9/30 Aaron Krister Johnson :
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been playing around with this new GUI/MIDI Csound instrument I
> designed. It's fairly simple, but fun and with some knob twiddling, you can
> really stay busy and engaged for hours.
>
> http://www.akjmusic.com/software/phase_mod_20090930.csd
>
> It's basically a demonstration of phase modulation (fancy FM without nasty
> side effects), and uses 2 sines as modulators modulating a single sine
> carrier. Each modulator has an ADSR envelope, and so does the carrier. I
> also included a 'bqrez' lowpass filter for improved 'acoustic
> instrument-like' resonance effects, and there is panning and a
> stereo-chorus-like enrichment parameter which, under the hood, is just using
> two 'jitter' opcodes for stereo detuning---it makes a huge difference for
> spatial enhancement, IMO.
>
> You may have to edit settings for your system in the header....I'm using
> Linux.
>
> Special thanks goes out to Ian McCurdy--his wonderful realtime GUI
> collection is what I hacked from to come up with this.
>
> TODOS:
>
> 1) I could use help debugging something, as I mentioned
> elsewhere----ideally, I want to use FLtext type 1 (default), not type 3
> (only dragging the mouse for values incrementing and decrementing), but,
> loading the banks and setting presets for some weird reason doesn't work
> with FLtext type 1. It just doesn't update, even though the snapshot file
> contains the correct saved values......
>
> 2) Temperament and scale presets
>
> 3) Effects (like delay, RT-convolution reverb, etc)
>
> Best,
> AKJ
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>
>
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