-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 01:48:05PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Ken Restivo hat gesagt: // Ken Restivo wrote: > > > I'm starting to enjoy glitchy percussion sounds I'm hearing in a lot > > of computer music these days, and want to experiment with those. > > > > I've asked around about how people are making these sounds, and the > > answers I get are "Battery", "Redrum", and "Reason". All firmly > > wedged closed and proprietary. of course. > > > > Are there any good free tools for making glitchy drum sounds, which > > do not require the use of WINE? If the answer to that is > > "SC/CSound/PD/ChucK", that's fantastic, can anyone point me to some > > particularly good source code or patches for glitchy drums in those > > languages that I could start experimenting with? > > I attached a simple Pd patch, which can be used to explore glitchy > sounds created from playing short sections of a sample with a short > volume envelope, that doesn't ramp, but jumps to 1 on attack. Not > ramping will automatically generate that clicky sound. Additionally a > simple "tanh-like" distortion is applied to the sound. > > Just try loading any sample (44.1kHz, wav/aiff) you have on your disk > and play with the toggles. The "randomize-start" toggle switches > selecting a random start point in the sample. > > If you have found a nice glitchy sound, you can export it to a file > with the "record" message. Remember to switch off the randomization > before recording, otherwise you will not record the previous segment, > but a new one. > Thanks for this! I put a snare sound through it and had a good bit of fun listening to it take an Elvin Jones-sounding "solo" in randomize mode. Actually with the distortion it sounded more like the beginning of Billy Cobham's "Spectrum". It sounded also a bit like the PD patch "Jazz Drum Box", which looks like it uses a similar technique. - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHIQIFe8HF+6xeOIcRAm2oAJ9clXxQug2eNmmZNNtNq+V0DSKj/ACg6UjS 0gnITdKSrVnThx/zDmufBqI= =HY7k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user