My first real patch! A 3xosc synth, like in fruity loops. Adds three waves, with the choice of frequency, shape (square, triangle, sawtooth, sine), and relative volume, to a normalized output.

I don't know what to do with it though. I think I'd like to use Pd to make synths, then sequence them somehow. So, what would be a good way to use this 3xosc in a composition? Record some noises as wavs and then sequence those? Or is there some better way to play my Pd synth as an instrument from some other application? Just route MIDI signals to Pd maybe? (I'm using Pd-extended with linux and ALSA, and the dreaded pulseaudio.)

Please, inspire me! (I don't _really_ have a goal, but I just want to keep using Pd, because it's cool.)

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otherwise, happy holidays

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/3xosc.pd

I cant seem to get it working. Any suggestions?

i could write a long post on how to do this but instead

Use the search function

you'll find something

this is awesome function1! Interestingly, 3 times the same wave does not equal the same wave but 3 times louder! - whatever it does to the summing I like it.

if you wanted to embellish on it, I would add a triangular XY pad to use as a mixer between the wavetables and then modulate/sequence it!

usually a synth will follow on from the oscillators with a filter and ADSR envelope to shape the sound.

but this is pd, so you can do whatever you want. as arif says, some sort of modulation and stuff would make your sounds more lively.

oh, by the way, tiny-orbit,

is the reason it doesn't work because the [spigot~] object isn't loading?

if so, here is a version that doesn't use [spigot~]

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/3xosc-win.pd

I had some trouble getting this patch to work, as well. After some digging, I found that the "mux" shorthand for "multiplex" doesn't work. I had to replace the three [mux~ 1 2 3 4] with [multiplex~ 1 2 3 4], and it works fine.

Great job with the patch. I've been looking for something similar.