For something pretty hairy, check out an analog alternative to Fourier
analysis/resynthesis using Walsh functions on Tony Allgood's site:
http://www.techrepairs.freeserve.co.uk/walsh.htmTony says he's built a partial implementation of this beast, maybe he can
comment on the sound possibilities...
Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@... > From: "Tkacs, Ken" <ken.tkacs@...>
>
> What do we have for the frequency domain? Besides the Ring Modulator (and
> it's close relative the Frequency [not Pitch] Shifter, is there anything
> that lets you change the frequency, rather than amplitude, of individual
> partials with respect to one another? Ring Modulators and
> Frequency shifters
> work 'all or nothing' in a linear (sic) way. It seems like the only way to
> do further, more flexible mutations of this sort is to go to additive
> synthesis via a ∗lot∗ of VCOs or something.
>
> I dunno... seems like there should be more devices in this category, that
> function in this domain. Something to retune partials in ways
> different than
> a Ring Modulator.
>