Virtual VCOs

[03sjbrown at bsuvc.bsu.edu]

I was screwing around with my computer the other day and I was playing
with a set of ten waveforms which morph from a tri wave to a saw wave
(#1 beind a tri wave and #10 being a saw wave, with #2,3,4, and so
on being some shape in between).

I made a multisampled instrument asigning a different waveform to different
notes so when a scale is played the sound becomes sharper then softer then
sharper and so on...

Then I made a bass line and copied it so that there were two identical
tracks. Then I took the second track and dropped it one octave. Since 
I only used 10 different waveforms and there are 12 half-steps in an
octave the waveforms of each bass track are slightly different.

When I played this it gave me a nice thicker sound with a lot of depth.
The thing I'm really happy about is that I only have to store 
one wave length of each wave and I still get a nice deep sound.
The instrument I made only took 7.8K of memory. 

And using a guitar pedal as a filter worked pretty nice too. 

I was wondering if anyone else had done anything similar using 
simple waveforms on a computer...


- Shawn Brown