Re: [linux-audio-user] Free-as-in-freedom B3, other than Bristol?

From: Gordon JC Pearce <wsynth@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Mar 22 2007 - 10:56:27 EET

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 23:48 +0000, Folderol wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:01:03 +0000
> Gordon JC Pearce <wsynth@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 19:23 +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote:
> > > Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> > >
> > > > When it's working, it sounds like
> > > > http://static.nekosynth.co.uk/demos/organ.ogg / organ.mp3
> > >
> > > That's decent, but still cheesy compared to beatrix. No offence :-)
> > What you've got there is a quick hack on Sean Bolton's Xsynth-DSSI, but
> > with a bunch of sine waves, and a quick hack on Steve Harris's Giant
> > Flange (oo-er) which, when combined, gives you a fairly decent tonewheel
> > simulation that sits well in a mix.
>
> The tonewheels don't actually create sinewaves. Viewed on an
> oscilloscope they are sort of slightly flattened, rather like a very
> worn cogwheel.

I *think* - can't remember, haven't got time or inclination to check -
that when I generated the sine tables for my plugin, I fired them
through tanh() to knock the tops down a little.

Could you make a tonewheel string machine by using little circular saw
blade-shaped wheels?

Gordon
Received on Thu Mar 22 12:15:02 2007

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