[sdiy] Random DSP thoughts

[Tim Ressel]

Hey all,

A few ideas of what the heck to do with one of these new-fangled DSP thingies:

Clap Machine. No, not some kind of eeevil experment, but an attempt to make a clap synthesizer that mimics real clapping. A gizmo that takes either samples of claps or just generates claps, and can do rhythmic or random clapping. Can even play with slight delays between the channels to do some spacial stuff. Yeah, I know, it's been done. But not by me. Yet. You see, I hate canned clap machines. Hate, hate, hate. I think we can do better.

VoSim. This is the vowel simulator out of the Chamberlin book. Creates a decaying train of sin^2 pulses with 3 parameters. Might make a fun module.

Drums. A simulation of an actual drum head with the ability to hit anywhere on the surface. Simulates the not-so-harmonics of a drum, the rim, rhe shell, and the stick. Yeah, I know, it's been done. Into the ground it's been done. So what?

Inharmonic Oscillator. Venture into pseudo-additive synthesis with an oscillator whose harmonics are variable in frequency. Be able to have the harmonics shift over the note duration.

Just a few things rattling around in my head. 

--TimR