Sorry for what is perhaps a rather specific question, but... does anyone else have the Andy Farnell Designing Sound book?

I never did that much with it because there's a fundamental editing mistake (IMO) -- many patches refer to abstractions, but there is usually no explicit link between the name of the abstraction and the figure in which the abstraction is defined.

Case in point (and relevant to a project) -- figure 38.7 (page 445) uses an abstraction [raindrops 20 0.1].

http://aspress.co.uk/sd/practical15.html doesn't have it.

Actually I'm looking through that chapter for any abstraction that has only $1 and $2 but not $3 or higher (bc the use of the abstraction provides only 2 arguments) and I don't see one -- so maybe it was just omitted?

Just wondering if anyone had run into this and found a solution.

hjh

@ddw_music https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pres_0/8375/designing_sound.zip/practical15.html has a little more description and states for [rain_on_water] .... Rain - rain on water, alternative droplet model.
But fortunately, [raindrops] is included in the tarball of all files here....... http://aspress.co.uk/sd/ so it is an omission mistake on the page you linked to....
David.

@whale-av said:

But fortunately, [raindrops] is included in the tarball of all files here....... http://aspress.co.uk/sd/ so it is an omission mistake on the page you linked to....

Ah ok ... thanks.

Yeah, it's an interesting book but sometimes hard to see what is what. This [raindrops] abstraction is a parameterized version of another figure in the book, but without a clear explanation in the text AFAICS.

Thanks for the tip --

hjh