Re: [music-dsp] Wavetable File Formats?

2018-03-13 Thread Risto Holopainen
> imagine it's two-dimensional vector synthesis like a Prophet VS.  one > dimension is some other timbre parameter with a minimum and a maximum > (no wrap around). > > so, in the other dimension, imagine having say, 6 identical wavetables > except the 2nd harmonic is offset by 60 degrees in phase

Re: [music-dsp] Wavetable File Formats?

2018-03-12 Thread Risto Holopainen
  Thanks for your friendly comments, Robert! First of all, I probably need to clarify that I'm not trying to make a traditional synth application out of these wavetables, but I will use some of them in my own compositions in one way or another. > > 1. "The wavetables are written to an array expect

Re: [music-dsp] Wavetable File Formats?

2018-03-10 Thread Risto Holopainen
Den 2018-03-10 kl. 16:33, skrev Frank Sheeran: > > What I notice in so many of the existing tools in this niche is that > they all let you "draw your own waveform!!" as if that's something > you'd actually want to do.  It always seemed obvious to me that at > least drawing the harmonic spect

Re: [music-dsp] ± 45° Hilbert transformer using pair of IIR APFs

2017-02-07 Thread Risto Holopainen
Yes, there are lots of interesting things that can be done with frequency shifting. Feedback suppression in a PA system by frequency shifting was suggested by Manfred Schroeder a long time ago. I have occasionally found it to be useful to broaden a mono signal by feeding it through a hilbert transf

Re: [music-dsp] Time-domain noisiness estimator

2016-02-22 Thread Risto Holopainen
On February 22, 2016 at 12:13:39 pm +01:00, Corey K wrote: > I don't have any links on the use of autocorrelation in this context, and I > don't even know if it would work. My basic thought, however, was that the > autocorrelation of white noise should be zero at all time lags other than 0.

Re: [music-dsp] Cheap spectral centroid recipe

2016-02-19 Thread Risto Holopainen
zero crossing rate. I can think of applications such as perceptual research where their differences matter a great deal, and other applications where you would just pick the descriptor that is most mathematically elegant or easy to implement. Risto Holopainen _

Re: [music-dsp] Cheap spectral centroid recipe

2016-02-02 Thread Risto Holopainen
ed windows. Another simple way if you do an FFT would be to accumulate the amplitude of successive bins, counting from 0 Hz upwards as well as from f_s/2 downwards, stopping at the bin where the summed amplitudes match. And welcome to the list! Risto Holopainen _

Re: [music-dsp] about entropy encoding

2015-08-13 Thread Risto Holopainen
l entropy whereas white > noise has maximal entropy, so it's useful for distinguishing pitched and > noisy signals. Risto Holopainen ___ music-dsp mailing list music-dsp@music.columbia.edu https://lists.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp

Re: [music-dsp] entropy

2014-10-21 Thread Risto Holopainen
n a > computer crash this summer! > And, as Andy suggests, if music broadly defined is 'organized sound', > then there might always be a way of converting some area of > mathematics into something musical, that someone might appreciate as > art. > > M. > &

Re: [music-dsp] #music-dsp chatroom invitation

2014-10-08 Thread Risto Holopainen
tected if you add a little bit of noise, more or less the same way as happens with dither. I haven't seen this paper by Adams, but maybe it relates to stochastic resonance too. Risto Holopainen -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source cod

Re: [music-dsp] Frequency based analysis alternatives ?

2014-07-12 Thread Risto Holopainen
t too. Risto Holopainen 10 juli 2014, Rohit Agarwal skrev: > > > > If I was to model music in general, it would be a sequence of 2 type > segments, non-stationary transitions would be the first and quasi > stationary tones the second type. This would get more involved with

Re: [music-dsp] a weird but salient, LTI-relevant question

2014-05-08 Thread Risto Holopainen
once complaining about repetition in the noise generator of Csound. I think they used a random generator with period 2^16 in those days, but it's been improved now. Risto Holopainen -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscri

Re: [music-dsp] Best way to do sine hard sync?

2014-02-26 Thread Risto Holopainen
://ristoid.net/sndex/softsync_amount_sweep.wav When it comes to programming hard sync, I would use oversampling. I'm not saying that you should, I'm just lazy enough to do it the easy way. Risto Holopainen > > I have an almost embarrassing question on this subject. Having lead far

Re: [music-dsp] Moselle Alpha 0.1.3 Released

2014-01-13 Thread Risto Holopainen
doing what I am used to do (I'm using csound and C++). Have you had a look at other text based synthesis environments such as ChucK or SuperCollider? I think the latter at least has a thriving user community. Risto Holopainen -- dupswapdrop -

Re: [music-dsp] R: R: R: Trapezoidal integrated optimised SVF v2

2013-11-13 Thread Risto Holopainen
hear from anyone who is better informed on this. Risto Holopainen -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http:/

Re: [music-dsp] note onset detection

2013-08-08 Thread Risto Holopainen
I haven't worked much on this, so just some speculations. > i'd sorta like to keep this in the time-domain if possible so that it > might be able to operate real-time, even with a small delay. but the > delay in doing an STFT seems too long. A delay the size of a few periods of the signal seems

Re: [music-dsp] Sound effects and Auditory illusions

2013-02-19 Thread Risto Holopainen
Hello Marcelo, One thing that is definitely worth including is an example of the illusion that you may think you are able to distinguish two slightly different sounds (or even identical ones). I have often fooled myself, and seen others suffer from this mistake. Although this is not an auditory i

Re: [music-dsp] mechanisms that transfer of energy between modes in acoustic systems?

2012-12-16 Thread Risto Holopainen
been fully explained yet. Risto Holopainen (*) Legge and Fletcher: Nonlinearity, chaos, and the sound of shallow gongs. JASA 86(6), 1989. > Hi Everyone, > > I have a question which in a broad sense relates to physical modelling > and acoustics: > > Under what circumst

[music-dsp] autonomous instruments thesis online

2012-05-31 Thread Risto Holopainen
another. Risto Holopainen Department of Musicology University of Oslo -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-27 Thread Risto Holopainen
I must say I'm happy to have learnt the rudiments of Csound in 1996 and not today. The problem is not so much its shortcomings (I partly agree with Ross on them) but its "longcoming" list of opcodes and ever-expanding list of new features. Searching the manual for the correct name for a one-pole f

Re: [music-dsp] a little about myself

2012-02-22 Thread Risto Holopainen
t arXiv by Heikkilä that explains it. Risto Holopainen Department of Musicology University of Oslo > It's nice to see some familiar names in Csound's defense. > > Here's something I've considered since learning C: has anyone > (attempted to) compose music in straight

Re: [music-dsp] anyone care to take a look at the Additivesynthesis > article at Wikipedia?

2012-01-11 Thread Risto Holopainen
g to get involved in that -- good luck to anyone who does. Risto Holopainen Institutt for musikkvitenskap Universitetet i Oslo > I do not think that Wikipedia is a bad idea. The problem is that > everybody can contribute and people tend to get into arguments and > editing wars like they

Re: [music-dsp] FM Synthesis

2011-09-12 Thread Risto Holopainen
So, what you have mistakenly implemented is probably feedback FM with pure delay, or something like x[n] = sin(phi + bx[n-D]) phi += w, where D is your buffer size. Although it usually doesn't sound very good, I nevertheless find it interesting by being a discrete time version of a delay differe

[music-dsp] Invitation to the Autonomous Instrument Song Contest

2011-04-15 Thread Risto Holopainen
enjoy participating! You will find the Song Contest here: https://nettskjema.uio.no/answer.html?fid=46502&lang=en It's open until April, 30. Risto Holopainen Department of Musicology University of Oslo -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FA