I'm thinking more like a real vacuum cleaner than a typical techno hoover sound, but still tonal enough to play melodies. I imagine that obiwannabe's motor patch could be modified with some kind of comb filters or parallel oscillators to get more of a mechanical suction sound, but I'm not sure how... Has anyone done anything like this before? Basically I'd like a nice little voot-voot-voot-voot timbre to play as one instrument in a composition.

http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-2361-noise-osc

hardoff has this neat idea of sampleholding the noise generator. Band pass that and mix with obi's motors mebbe.

vacuum cleaners suck.

nature abhors a vacuum.

@sunji said:

http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-2361-noise-osc

hardoff has this neat idea of sampleholding the noise generator. Band pass that and mix with obi's motors mebbe.

That was my idea gawd damnit.

Hardoff, you're already ripping off my work...

(Okay, let's not go into how much knowledge-debt I am in to you :P)

actually, sampleholding noise is probably as old as sampleholding and noise are

This is the closest I've been able to get to the stylized vacuum sound I'm seeking, by kludging AlbertoZ's another_shower into obi's motor. It's still pretty embarrassing, and sounds like a cross between a dental drill and a dog toy... needs more suck.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/vacuumprototype8.pd

i have a feeling that you want to run the entire signal through a vcf~ , to simulate the tube of the cleaner.