shepard generator

[Christian Hofmann]

On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:41:52 +0200 (MET DST)
Martin Czech <martin.czech at intermetall.de> wrote:

> > >getting an impression of what it sounds like shouldn't be too difficult
> > >using a s*mpler. Sample any osc sweep, set fade-in to first half,
> > >fade-out to other half, and trigger continuously (as a one-shot) from a
> > >sequencer...?
> > -well, yeah, that sounds very reasonable, but what fun is THAT?  
> > 
> > you wouldn't even get to solder anything, for chrissakes.. 
> > 
> And it sounds better the more components sweep up or down,
> ie. spectral density should be high. This will mask the come in- get
> out at both ends.

Umm, it wasn't meant as a replacement for the real thing, just to take a
quick listen what this effect could sound like. 
In real life, I'm looking forward to shepard a couple of bbds or phasing
stages. If I ever find the time, that is.

Of course we all know that the sampler is evil ;-)

cu
Christian

P.S.: It took a lot of soldering to connect a laptop harddisk to my
sampler. But it was no fun at all...