[sdiy] re : Oh god, not the Circular Waveform Again! ( was something else )

[Ian Fritz]

At 08:42 PM 11/19/2004, Tom Arnold wrote:

>Hrm.  I guess my point is that whatever you visualize a waveform as being,
>it still winds up being a single dimension movement over time when it hits
>your eardrum...

That's your point?  OK.

> > No, a circular orbit corresponds to sine and cosine signals.  A Sheppard
> > generator is more like a helical orbit on a torus.
>
>Yeah, but it *sounds* circular. :-)

Well, if you know what a torus is, it's kinda circular.  :-)

>I didnt realise you had sound clips at the bottom.  Listened to them.  They
>sound chaotic ( and I mean that in the descriptive way not subjective ).
>To me they dont *sound* circular.

They're not circular.  They're chaotic.

>Neat stuff in any case.  I'm actually intrigued by the idea of taking your
>VC chaos generator, slowing it way down and quantizing it for use as a
>sequencer.

That's what the demos are.  I guess you didn't read the original post when 
I put them up.  The chaos circuit is controlling synth patches, both 
directly through control voltage modulation and indirectly through the 
generation of chaotic timing events.

   Ian