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Sound Byte: Detuning Envelope Follower
I had the wacky idea of using an envelope follower on a kick drum part to drive the center frequency of an oscillator. So I dug up some envelope following code on the internet and threw that together...
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Sound Byte: Filtered Tuning
I’ve been meaning to try out some digital Moog filter code. A digital Moog filter is simply a filter that attempts to model the analog filters found on Moog synthesizers. It’s got two knobs: frequency...
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Sound Byte: Broken Record
I wrote a UGen the other day that allows you to change the tick rate (or sample rate, if you like), of any UGen that you patch to it. After making a mouse-driven example to test it out, I created this...
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Sound Byte: Beat Generator
Probably the coolest Sound Byte yet, this one will generate drum beats based on probabilities for each sixteenth note in a measure. The sound-set is basic: kick, snare, hat, plus a chime loop that is...
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Sound Byte: Glitch Generator
I’ve been working on this one for a few days. It follows the same principle as the beat generator from my previous post: whether or not a note is added to the generated sequence at a given step is...
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Sound Byte: String of Pearls
I had a cool idea about controlling a filter bank of bandpass filters, so I coded up this simple sketch. Each white pearl in this string of pearls represents a band pass filter. The horizontal position...
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Sound Byte: Noise Shaper
What started out as simply curiosity about what it would sound like to run a Noise UGen through a TickRate UGen and slow it way down, turned into this interesting sound generating sketch. I’m using...
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Sound Byte: Melodizer
The Melodizer is a variation on the Beat Generator. It will constantly generate a tune with a “melody” and a “bass line” by looking at the settings every measure and generating a measure with those...
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Sound Byte: Ball Synth
This very simple sketch is a little musical physics simulation. Click in it to spawn a ball that will bounce off the walls, producing notes each time it does. Listen with headphones for the best...
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Sound Byte: Granulizer Patch
This Sound Byte gives you control over a reasonably complex UGen chain. The meat of it is a UGen I’ve called Granulizer, which takes sample data and, based on some parameters, randomly chooses short...
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