Alternate synthesis method?
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 9:50 pm
Hello Alexander,
I apologize if this is not the proper forum (may be better of as a Pixilang thread), but I am interested in your opinion on something.
Firstly, thank you so much for VANS, I may have said it before but this software is really amazing for experimental music. I truly love it!
That being said, I've noticed it's not really possible to get a convincing white/pink/brown noise sound out of it. I can understand why, because the synthesis method is based on a finite number of sine oscillators. So I was wondering, would it be possible (perhaps in Pixilang) to, instead of using oscillators, have a finite number of extremely narrow-band filters with white noise as the source? That way, instead of drawing the amplitude of the oscillators, you're drawing the amplitude of the filters. And I suppose, theoretically, you could have any sound as the source but white noise would provide the most bandwidth.
What I'm not sure about however, is the CPU expense. I'm assuming it would be greatly increased - although, for this purpose I'm more interested in the composition aspect of the program and less the real-time synthesize use.
Anyway, this was just an idea I had. If you have any thoughts I would love the hear them, although I'm sure you're a busy man.
Thanks again!!
John
I apologize if this is not the proper forum (may be better of as a Pixilang thread), but I am interested in your opinion on something.
Firstly, thank you so much for VANS, I may have said it before but this software is really amazing for experimental music. I truly love it!
That being said, I've noticed it's not really possible to get a convincing white/pink/brown noise sound out of it. I can understand why, because the synthesis method is based on a finite number of sine oscillators. So I was wondering, would it be possible (perhaps in Pixilang) to, instead of using oscillators, have a finite number of extremely narrow-band filters with white noise as the source? That way, instead of drawing the amplitude of the oscillators, you're drawing the amplitude of the filters. And I suppose, theoretically, you could have any sound as the source but white noise would provide the most bandwidth.
What I'm not sure about however, is the CPU expense. I'm assuming it would be greatly increased - although, for this purpose I'm more interested in the composition aspect of the program and less the real-time synthesize use.
Anyway, this was just an idea I had. If you have any thoughts I would love the hear them, although I'm sure you're a busy man.
Thanks again!!
John