Mark Gay wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to put together some instruments that duplicate the sound
> of buzzing insects.  I'd like to get a fat house fly type of buzz as well as
> a more high pitched mousquito.  I'm currently  mostlly working with VAZ but
> I use Csound as well.
>

I had been looking for a similar sound months before. I suggest you to
use the
buzz opcode of course - with some lowpass filtering & randomness in the
pitch and amplitude-, but you can get surprisingly good results by LPC
resynthesis (using buzz again as the carrier) starting from a bad
analysis parameters . The pitch tracker cannot get a proper
pitched line and the result, even if not very similar to a real fly, is
similarly buzzy, incertain and irritating!... after that route the sound
in the 2d space
and add some doppler effect and voila!

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