On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 23:48 +0000, Folderol wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:01:03 +0000 > Gordon JC Pearce <wsynth@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 19:23 +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote: > > > Gordon JC Pearce wrote: > > > > > > > When it's working, it sounds like > > > > http://static.nekosynth.co.uk/demos/organ.ogg / organ.mp3 > > > > > > That's decent, but still cheesy compared to beatrix. No offence :-) > > What you've got there is a quick hack on Sean Bolton's Xsynth-DSSI, but > > with a bunch of sine waves, and a quick hack on Steve Harris's Giant > > Flange (oo-er) which, when combined, gives you a fairly decent tonewheel > > simulation that sits well in a mix. > > The tonewheels don't actually create sinewaves. Viewed on an > oscilloscope they are sort of slightly flattened, rather like a very > worn cogwheel. I *think* - can't remember, haven't got time or inclination to check - that when I generated the sine tables for my plugin, I fired them through tanh() to knock the tops down a little. Could you make a tonewheel string machine by using little circular saw blade-shaped wheels? Gordon
