Hello everyone, I'm wondering if you could help me.

Basically I'm looking to recreate a cars engine as realistically as possible.

The simulated speed of the car needs to be an input and the output should be similar to the rate and pitch of a real engine.

I've made a couple of patches before but not for a while, so could anyone point me in the right direction as to what I should use/look into using?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks

Hello Syncratic!

I've never had experience with recreating the sound of engine, but this page might be very good starting point for you: http://obiwannabe.co.uk/tutorials/html/tutorial_machines_intro.html

sinewave

Wow! Thank you, a great start.

I will try and adapt it to work with an input speed, instead of a go and stop and see how I get on.

If anyone else can input that would be great, thanks again

I've done it! Ish.. you can depress the acceleration pedal and change gear with similar results to that of a real car, see what you think; http://www.sendspace.com/file/3g0a5m

Any ideas how it could be better?

Thanks

I'm thinking of using granular synthesis, would this create more realistic results?

@Syncratic said:

I've done it! Ish.. you can depress the acceleration pedal and change gear with similar results to that of a real car, see what you think; http://www.sendspace.com/file/3g0a5m

Any ideas how it could be better?

Thanks

Syncratic, you can attach your patch to your posts on the forum. It may be a good idea for archival purposes. Someone may stumble upon this thread and the sendspace link will be dead. Cheers.

i'd recommend getting the book of the person who made the obiwannabe-site "designing sound" i have it..and it is great for learning about PD and it has practical exercises and examples of all sorts of sounds like engines and pedestrians and weapons

http://aspress.co.uk/ds/about_book.php

Fantastic! the link alone was very helpful, it appears he has developed some more motor sounds. Currently playing around with them and trying to figure out what I can modify.

Very helpful, thank you

Also if anyone has any other methods or types of synthesis they think might create realistic engines then I'd love to hear your input!

Just a quick noob question, is there something similar to a toggle which can stop and start the flow of continuous data?
Thanks

A question for everybody;

What would you like your electric car to sound like?

I"m trying out experimental engine sounds