[sdiy] Psych Tone

[Donald Tillman]

On Jan 5, 2019, at 7:53 PM, rsdio at audiobanshee.com wrote:
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> Tempo seems to set the total envelope time, such that too much Attack and/or Decay leaves insufficient time for the envelope to finish, and then you hear clicking. This is on macOS in Safari. I find that reducing Tempo or reducing Attack or Decay will solve the clicking on output.
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> I assumed that this might have been a “feature” of the original Psych Tone.

I tried to model the Psych Tone accurately, though I did take some liberties -- I extended the range of the Tempo and Pitch controls, and I spent very little time on the waveforms.

The Sustain control is a fraction of the tempo clock.

The Attack and Decay controls are rates that don't know about the tempo.  So you have to tweak them together.

The clicking is because I still need to avoid some funny states in the audio API.  And the audio API has always had some bugs.

  -- Don
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Donald Tillman, Palo Alto, California
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