Six simple synthesisers. Obiwannabe Use the source... Introduction This is a follow up tutorial to the "Beginners quick start guide to making music in Puredata". This will be useful for people who want to make music using Pd and synthesised sounds. In this exercise we are going to build six synthesisers and connect them up to play a piece of music. Again we will be using nothing but Puredata so make you have it installed. 1 Subtractive saws Of all the synths known to humanity the most recognised and peculiarly seminal sound is the filtered saw wave. 1.1 Core DSP units Two sawtooth oscillators We begin by summing just two sawtooth waves.
Filter That sounds good but it's too bright all the time like that, we want to be able to control the brightness so lets add a filter to remove some harmonics. Filter control We would like to be able to control the cutoff frequency of the filter. Line envelopes Message controlled line To automate the line generator and make it a proper envelope we need to send two message in sequence. Pd synthesizers. Home music code bio contact [polywavesynth] & [polygrainsynth] free polyphonic synthesizers for Pd (a.k.a. "Pure Data")Click on either image for details. PureData (en) Marco's Pd Tuts. Read image/picture from file. This is my first attempt at sonifying images so far. It's a simple raster scanning example. A bit messy, but hopefully you'll understand. Just find some pictures to load, and try to adjust the speed to your needs. The mapping is really simple so far, just letting the RGB values control low, mid and high frequencies of regular [osc~]s.
Tips:- Don't load too large images, you'll listen forever (320x240 is great)- Try to find two versions of the same image and listen to the differences and similarities. Next i'll work with other scanning methods (using some statistics and sonify a whole column at the time maybe, letting the width/x-axis represent time), and of course more interesting mapping and sounds. Don't know how many others who are interested in this, but i'll post my progress over the weekend nevertheless :) Thanks again all of you! (not sure if i needed to upload the subpatches in addition to my main patch. Last edited by ZnakeByte (2010-11-18 14:32:14) Attachments: NOISH~ Pure-data abstractions/patches. Dynlib. Practical Data. Obiwannabe. Moocow / projects / Pd. Pure Data (Pd) - Alberto Zin. Here you'll find some of the tools I developed for Pure Data ( a powerful open source audio/video dataflow software. A bit outdated copy of this page can be found on the official Pure Data site ( If, for any reason you find the tools on this page useful and you want to offer me a beer please have a look at the bottom of the page.
~moduLaRe~ ~moduLaRe~ is mainly a personal tool for processing live flute sound in a creative way, but at the end it became something interesting that I think is worth sharing. The tool is based on work done by other people, in particular on a patch by Stephen Christopher Stamper (and other, please see the acknowledgements in the user manual within the download archive). I’m mostly interested to the flute, but in principle it should work with any input provided. The following is the user interface: How it sounds? Get ~moduLaRe~ archive here (v 0.11, aug 26, 2012).
Granitique! M2 (Mondrian2) xYzee! Pure Data 24h audio stream, ecoradio and open music :: THESADDJ.COM new media art and open source culture. February 11th, 2011 My friend and talented musician Noish~ sent some info about this ecoradio project: “metaminaFNR is 24h audio stream. A PD patch is running in a server. It chose by random diferents audio-urls from a txt file and play them. Almost all the audio tracks are hosted at archive.org.
In the selection you will listen soundart, noise, algorithmic and generative music, improvisations, field-recordings, microsounds, and more.. all of them with a strong experimental character and under “open” licenses. all info+code+concept+contens and how to listen here >> “. This autonomic radio freely gathers and spreads nodes of sound art instances, works by different composers and sonic artists with a common interest in openness of media, languages and technologies, ecologies of individuals and values. Search other articles tagged eco , FLOSS , puredata , sound.art , streaming. Nullpointer » Blog Archive » Pure Data Patches. Pure Data is a modular dsp system by Miller Puckette. See www.pure-data.org for more details You must have PD to run any of these patches.
PD Drum machine An 808 style drum machine. Up to 10 user sample instruments, up to 200 bars.drum-machine.zip (280k) with samples PD Pulse Grain Generator A pulsar like grain generator (single grain train) with automated/ controllable properties. Envelope size/shape, Grain spacing, Grain Pitch, Grain Pan.pulse-grain-generator.zip (50k) PD Example Semi-Generative tune A simple set of patches demonstrating simple generative composition techniques. More to come….. Www.umatic.nl/workshop/objects.txt. PureData (en) How to build a MIDI controller with the Arduino, Firmata and Pure Data « blog. Time to start contributing some knowledge back to the wonderful world that is the internet; today, a step by step nice and easy tutorial on getting started to building your own MIDI controllers with the arduino.
When researching for my ableton controller project, I didn’t find much out there about using firmata on an arduino to send data to software. The standard approach just seemed to be create the code in the arduino language, upload it to your board and hack one of those MIDI to USB cables as a bodge job way of getting the MIDI out of the arduino. So why firmata and pure data? Well the whole idea of firmata is that you flash it to your arduino, and it throws out serial about whats going on with the arduino inputs and outputs, then you decide how the software treats the readings coming in and going out. Theory out the way, lets build some controllers. An arduino and something to wire into it (for this i’ll be using a pot)A USB cable for your arduino All wired up? And thats it! The FXaphone. Solitude. I pursue the intersection between timbral and tonal expression.
Tonal expression is deeply embedded while timbral expression brings new opportunities for exploration. Timbral music requires new methods of composition to break free of the dictates of western music notation. Sampling provides an avenue for using tonal music within other frameworks. I use my own graphical notation system, the scores are then played programmatically using samples as the source. This provides for seamless intermixing of melody and timbre and the interplay between the two. This piece came out of a few distinct inspirations. When the idea came to me, I was listening to a lot of Steve Reich and John Adams music, and studying their techniques of building texture.
Solitude has been included in the Notations21 project, which is a modern compendium and anthology of graphical scores inspired by John Cage's book, Notations. Solitude with Pd The Score In the score, time flows from left to right. Downloads Media.