Hello there, It's been a while since i've posted properly and used Pd in any capacity. So i decided to set my self a little challenge.

I decided to try and recreate some of the sound effects from the Super Mario games. I got the sound effects from this soundboard specifically Fireball, Jump, Power-up and Warp Pipe. I've linked my patches here for people to have a look at and point me in the right direction for being more efficient with the sound creation and coding process.

mario_fireball.pd
Mario_jump.pd
mario_power_up.pd
Mario_warppipe.pd

The process involved bouncing the audio out of the soundboard, then analysing the file in Izotope RX. From there i could identify things like which wave form to use (square) everything from frequencies, note duration, envelopes and anything else. Initially I had used an infinite bandwidth squarewave but that proved to bright against the original so went with a bandlimited square wave using sinesum. The biquad is a lowpass filter dialed in using [lowpass] and [tanh~] is there just for a little distortion.

But i've hit a brick wall with the 'Yoshi Mount' effect. I think it's something like amplitude modulation with a modulated carrier (FM come AM) based on what i can see:

(an example of the wave form)

does anyone have a few pointers for me, any feedback would be great.

Feel free to use the patches where ever, they're just a bit of fun.

Cheers

And some bonus screenshots as a comparison of the Warp Pipe so you can see what i mean.

This first image is a snapshot of the waveform making up the warp pipe sample. You can clearly see note definition, duration, waveform and overall envelope.

Here is the spectrum analyser for the same section. From here it's easy to identify root notes and their harmonics. The frequencies were mapped to notes so i could check for scales and anything else then converted to MIDI

And then here is the spectrum output of the Yoshi Mount effect in which i can't tell much except for some rough frequency sweeps and the possibility of it being AM from the screenshot in the above post.:

On a side note i love Izotope RX! it's fantastic for stuff like this (and yes, it's a legit copy)

I've done an update to Mario_jump as i realised the waveshape is triangle not square.

Mario_jump.pd

I think that your patches are made for pd-extended, on vanilla the objects [tanh~] and [envgen] are not recognized. For a better compatibility you should use [cyclone/tanh~] instead of [tanh~] and [ggee/envgen] instead of [envgen], this way we don't even have to declare the cyclone and the ggee libraries. And if we don't have them, their names are displayed with the error in the console.
Anyway, good job!

Cheers for the advice, i'll update those two objects.

The only reason i was actually using [envgen] is due to recently having a lot of problems with [vline~]. For some reason it's stopped doing complex ramps (ramp up hold ramp down, that sort of thing) in a lot of my patches, even the help patch doesn't work. There are a few that still work though. It's very odd.

thanks !!