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Re: granular synthesis!

Date1997-05-11 00:40
FromPer Byrne Villez
SubjectRe: granular synthesis!
>spore! wrote:
 Just to expand on the gen descriptions below; It is quite normal to use
other tables besides sines in the ordinary fof gen. Samples can be used
quite easily, without any problems. I wonder when we might see the fof2 and
fog gens in the PPCsound version? anybody have any news on this?.
                                                        Per


>   fof is only meant to use a waveform ftable (like a sine), but has
>versatile and interesting control functionality, mostly geared towards
>generating bandpass filtered (formant) tones.
>   fof2 keeps all of that, and adds control over where in the ftable
>each grain begins. This means you can use a recorded sound and do
>cheapo timestretching, or just pick it apart. (it's my fav of the lot.)
>   grain is the easiest to use, but each soundblip will begin
>reading the ftable from a random point, so no timestretching there.
>   granule handles up to four different grain streams with individual
>pitches. However, most parameters (including timestretch) must be set
>at init time, so the only thing you can control during performance is
>grain density.
>
>If you are a Mac/PowerMac user, you might want to use the Mills version
>- it seems quite popular. Not sure if all the abovementioned opcodes are
>included there however.
>Anyway, you should check out GrainWave, which is available from there.
>Haven't used it myself, but it's somewhat popular at the studios where
>I work (play).
>
>        Get it at ftp://www.mills.edu/ccm
>
>
>Happy chopping.
>
>        re


Date1997-05-11 04:22
FromMike Berry
SubjectRe: granular synthesis!
	fof2 is in the new 0.3.0 release (made last Monday), which
includes everything in 3.45.  3.46 should be included in 0.3.1, which
should be along sometime soon (including fog).

Mike Berry
mikeb@mills.edu
http://www.mills.edu/PEOPLE/gr.pages/mikeb.public.html/mikeb.homepage.html