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From: michelhav [mailto:
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Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 4:47 AM
To: mmarsh100
Subject: Re: Granular Synthesis on MOTM
> I was thinking about mailing you about #8 earlier, it sounds
> great! I still don't quite understand how you did it, though.
> Could you be more specific?
>
> Michel
Sure! If you think of the patch that I described earlier with an
oscillator driving an EG and the EG driving a VCA as one unit (I
called it a granularizer), then I used four of these. I played a
mono chord on an external synth and sent that output to the input of
each 'granularizer' (using a mult). I sent the output of each
granularizer to a mixer and spread the stereo field. Here's a
diagram:
VCO->EG->VCA---->mixer 100% left
|
VCO->EG->VCA---->mixer 50% left
/
Mono chord
\
VCO->EG->VCA---->mixer 50% right
|
VCO->EG->VCA---->mixer 100% right
Granular synthesis is usually done digitally so that you can get
many simultaneous grains (the basic Kyma.5 system can get nearly 100
simultaneous grains, for e.g.). With analog we are limited by the
number of modules. Even so, you can get some very interesting
timbres with just a few 'granularizers'.
BTW, if you input guitar into a single 'granularizer' you get very
good tremolo!
Mike