[sdiy] granular synth on AVR or Ucontrollers??

[dan snazelle]

I have been reading Curtis Roads (MICROSOUND) and it is so inspiring

now I am trying to figure out what is or is not possible with AVRS and DSPICS (or beyond)

There was the Peter Knight Sketch AUDUINO which talked about using  granular techniques to end up with a synth that sounds like a couple resonant filters with oscillators

beyond that, I havent seen any other granular stuff. even peter knights stuff, I cant read the code and gather how it relates to granular synthesis...though it sounds great.



from what I read you need to have lots of  bursts of sound that are very short, each with the same (or different) amplitude envelope 

much of curtis's early work revolved around using sine wave particles.


so

I am wondering if this would work




1. SINE or TRIANGLE WAVETABLE OSCILLATOR which could just be a constant  tone (with CV CONTROLLABLE OR MIDI CONTROLLABLE PITCH)

2. a way to turn that sine on and off for short bursts, either with a VCA, or just with conditional statements tied to a timer or interrupt

3. a very short envelope that gets triggered at the same time as the sound is turned on

4. conditionals or pots which allow you to have the bursts change in pitch, etc

5. send out to the DAC




any thoughts?

thanks