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overtone 2024-01-07
plexus 2024-01-07T10:26:22.828789Z
I am extremely chuffed with this church bell sound:
(demo
6
(let [freq (midicps 65)
decaytime 6
burst (var-saw freq)
filter-coef 0.3
filter-coef2 0.4]
(pan2
(rlpf
:in (+
(pluck burst
:delaytime (/ 1 freq)
:decaytime decaytime
:coef filter-coef)
(* (line:kr 0.1 0.3 4)
(pluck burst
:delaytime (/ 1 (* 1.01 freq))
:decaytime decaytime
:coef filter-coef2))
(* 0.3
(pluck burst
:delaytime (/ 1 (* 2.15 freq))
:decaytime decaytime
:coef filter-coef2)))
:freq (line (* 5 freq) (* 1.3 freq) 1.5)))))🔔 5
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Chris McCormick 2024-01-08T10:34:45.415289Z
Very cool technique! 🙏
plexus 2024-01-07T10:28:02.148809Z
Synthesizing bell sounds is notoriously difficult. I've seen FM and additive approaches, but they rarely really satisfy. Bells have a pretty unique mix of resonant and dissonant frequencies that's not easy to replicate with synths.
plexus 2024-01-07T10:29:17.655359Z
This however uses pluck, or Karpluss-Strong synthesis, which is usually used for string sounds. Turns out that if you combine a few of them and play a bit with the frequencies and envelopes you can get a pretty nice sounding bell.
plexus 2024-01-07T10:35:25.581279Z
Rohit Thadani 2024-01-29T16:22:37.636309Z
Hi @plexus This is unrelated but what is the best way to learn these techniques. How do I know of pluck or the burst. Is there a good manual for supercollider that will help me experiment and learn. I saw this https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Designing_Sound_in_SuperCollider and the mentioned book Designing Sound by Andy Farnell which I plan to begin reading. Would you suggest any other way.