what makes sound interesting (was: Design your own waveform synths?)

[Jerry Federspiel]

At 12:24 PM 2/25/1999 -0500, Gene Zumchak wrote:
>List,
>
>    May I add my own two cents.  Moog may have been the first to recognize
back
>in the sixties that what is important about a sound or waveform is NOT its 
>shape
>or frequency recipe (spectrum), but how it changes in time.  

I agree 100% (which is why I don't use smorphi all that much!).  I've
longed for software that allows for the gradual change of a waveform from
one shape to another, and I actually found it a few months ago.  It's
called Virtual Waves, and it has a "spectral morphing" feature that's
pretty neat.  It takes in two inputs, a starting input and a target input,
and it subjects the starting input to a bandpass filter that becomes
narrower and narrower over time, while subjecting the ending input to a
complementary bandstop filter that widens over time.  It adds the two
signals for a really cool effect.  Since I haven't gotten Virtual Waves to
work on my clunker 486 at home, tho, I've done the effect manually with
Goldwave (and, as a side effect, had more control over the entire process).



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