A couple of new toys in the obiwannabe toyshop. Fiboverb is a reverb unit that uses Fibonacci numbers to create cool sounding changes of scale without feedback instability. Sparkle is a synth that morphs between a set of parameters continuously, for making nice rich pad sounds.

Visit the "toys and gizmos" section of http://obiwannabe.co.uk/

good stuff obi

Hi Andy,

I'm impressed, in particular by Sparkle ! A lot of fun !
BTW, there are some objects that where not found in
my PD 0.39-2 extended test 4 distribution (on Win). When it loads
the patch it reports:

chorus4 test-lala
... couldn't create
harmonizer lala
... couldn't create
paf~
... couldn't create
harmonizer lele
... couldn't create
error: inlet: expected '' but got 'float'
... you might be able to track this down from the Find menu.
error: inlet: expected '' but got 'float'

Where can I find "harmonizer", "chorus4" and paf?
Thanks for sharing it!

PS: a curiosity: why you don't tell about the existence of these nice tools also to the
official PD list ? Maybe there are people tuned on only there and not here ...

Alberto

Thanks for the feedback Alberto.

Okay, I changed the patch to embed the missing abstractions as subpatches, they are essential to the operation and you're not the first to have had problems locating them. Should sound very different now, if you grab the paf~ extern too.

paf~ is Millers phase aligned formant unit, it works like fof in Csound to create a band limited pulse train with a formant, ideal for voice like synthesis.

The way it's used in Sparkle is important, it works hand in hand with the phasorbank to make very dense spectrums because the two parts complement each other.

The harmonisers are also integral to the patch.

The chorus is just an "effect" to fatten up.

I think Sparkle would go great with your Outerspace synth, and when I have a machine powerful enough to run both it would be great to make an ambient/orchestral track using them together.

Yes, I must get over myself with the inverted artistic vanity and share them more widely

Andy,

can't wait to try it.. In fact, I was just hearing a small fraction of Sparkle's but it was
enough to understand that it is good
When you'll pack everything together just give us a voice !

Alberto

PS: did you have a look at "Mondrian"?
http://www.puredata.org/Members/AlbertoZ/Mondrian

it was assembled in a couple of hours, but despite this I'm having a lot of fun with it...

Bye

AZ

[sparkle updated, but you still need to get paf~]

Yeah Mondrian looked interesting to me. As you know I like my unusual composition methods and I write a bit of Perl code to help with that sometimes. Mondrian looks like an elegant use of Python to express concurrency, more like how Csounds score files should have been done. I haven't tried it out yet, but iirc the only "issue" I had after looking at the readme was that it was necessary to write a midi file. I was going to look through the code and see if I could get it to talk to Pd in realtime, but then got distracted.

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