[sdiy] Granular synthesis/graintable synthesis

[Ben Lincoln]

On 2011-08-24 06:05, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have any good references for the above techniques? I'm trying to educate myself. Most of what I've found is fairly marketing-led and doesn't really get into the nitty gritty.
>
> Particularly subject to bouts of hand-waving is the process of chopping up a sample into grains. Or the production of usable grains from wavetables.
>
> Any pointers appreciated.

Hi Tom.

Professor Barry Truax at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC was 
one of the pioneers of this technique, so if you can dig up any of his 
papers, those would probably be among the most authoritative.

- Ben