Woops, I think that link just goes to the Sound on Sound site. Here is the link to the actual series of articles: https://www.soundonsound.com/series/synth-secrets-sound-sound

If you are going down the synthesis route. This series of articles will likely give you a lot of ideas to experiment with: https://www.soundonsound.com/series/synth-secrets.

I can't remember how I originally heard about it, but I think it is pretty popular.

@uriah generativeTechno.pd

Here it is! Sorry it is a bit of a mess.

@uriah I made a generative techno patch, but it didn't turn out as well.

@timothyschoen said:

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That would be great!

Thank you for humoring my digression.

This works way better. I knew that my patch was playing each waveset for the same amount of time rather than for the length of the waveset. I wasn't sure how to address it, but it works way better using vline~.

@manuels I made this patch to try to work with wavesets on a recorded sound. It find zero crossings and store their locations in an array. It doesn't quite sound to me like what I heard in Tongues of Fire, but maybe a step in that direction:
waveset-experiments.pd

I read that Wishart used CDP to work with wavesets. Have you used it before?

I am glad you posted. I had never heard of wavesets or Trevor Wishart before. I looked at his site a little and it said he had used waveset distortion in a few compositions (This is a link to one https://icrdistribution.bandcamp.com/track/tongues-of-fire), but I don't know if he used the same technique you did here. I will definitely be looking into wavesets and Wishart more.

I made a patch using a similar idea about a month ago: GeneralizedPWM.pd

I was thinking of it as applying the analogous process of pulse width modulation to a sine wave.

@gn embedding the video did not work. Here is a link:

How do I embed a video in a post?

I have been spending 15 minutes to an hour each night making a patch. Here is one I made on Halloween. By the way, is it more appropriate to post something like this in patch~ or output~?

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/drcgs9ER4Ms" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

DAY10.31.pd

When you use the bipolar wave form you are modulating twice as fast as when you use the unipolar wave. sin(x) starts at zero and crosses 0 halfway through its period, but the unipolar (sin(x)+1)/2 only reaches zero once during its period. When you use the bipolar wave you are probably hearing both the frequency of the carrier and twice that frequency.

Here is a patch I made about a year ago that generates drones: generativeDrone.pd

I would love hear from anyone working on anything similar to this!
generative_drone_100620.mp3