Hans Mikelson wrote:
> 
> Perhaps this would best be implemented as a utility
> routine that would convert the audio into phase vocoder format.

You mean "convert the pixel data into...", no? Why pvoc format?
Would it be more efficient than simply adding oscillators?
 
Michael Coble wrote:
> 
>     Soundhack for the Macintosh has a primitive version of this feature.  It
> creates a lot of noise, but then again maybe that's a goal.  Essentially, it's
> hard to draw a waveform (besides a sin wave) from scratch, and noisy to edit
> an existing one. 

Worse, it's often less than exciting since you will only get harmonic
partials from any repeating waveform. Usually the interesting stuff
happens somewhere else in a patch.
Besides, I think Michaelson was talking about using the pixels in a 
picture as input for many oscillators. This is one of the more useful 
methods for generating input data for massive additive synthesis.

=cw4t7abs wrote:
> 
> >  Soundhack for the Macintosh has a primitive version of this feature.
> 
> 1 kould utilize any drawing prgm 4 dis  matter.
> + open rezultz with sndhak + odr prgmz [bSt]

What other programs? I know Metasynth (it's brilliant). 

Regards,

	re