20 Nov
2015
20 Nov
'15
8:56 a.m.
Hi,
On 20/11/2015 03:07, James Harkins wrote:
The reason why I was looking for DST capability: I
have to give a lecture at my school next week about synthesis techniques, and I wanted to
show some tricks that are not exactly standard (even though they've been around since
Stockhausen was cutting up little bits of tape, but never mind that). Such as: run a
fixed-frequency band-limited impulse through a high-Q bandpass filter to play melodies on
the impulse's harmonic series.[1]
I can do this easily in SuperCollider, but I don't want the students to come away
with the impression that you have to learn programming to do synthesis. So that's out.
Try Pure Data... It *is* programming but it's visual and therefore much
more fun and intuitive, especially for educational purposes.
You need to dig a bit (documentation, examples, abstractions, externals)
to get band-limited stuff, but IMHO it's worth the effort.
Lorenzo.