Electronic Music 411 - nice discussion on sound design -

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02/28/08 + rrooyyccee

i like the critical edge.
i feel frustrated with my tools.
yeah i love the nonlinearities of true analogue synthesis, and i love the pureness and lightspeed resolution of control voltage.
however, the bridge between the computer and control voltage is just too stoopid to believe. computer out to midi to midi-cv convertor to synthesizer.
ridiculous!!!
all of the interesting control paradigms are "within the box". . . pure data, osc, max/msp, etc.
but all of the truly good sounds exist in discrete circuitry.
the standard excuse from the analogue guys is, "way to expensive to have audiorate control and modulation" from the computer to the synth. so my solution is to record with midi to cv, but then i have to chop up the audio and quantize in the digital audio domain, which is extremely time consuming and has no flo.
the standard excuse from the computer guys is, "just really get into max, you can do so much cool stuff with it". this may b etrue, but i don't want another hobby. i have enough hobbies. and while stuff within the box sounds good, it is tough to deny that it all has a sameness to it that is difficult to characterize but is nonetheless there.
we need digital computers that are fused with analogue computers, with no interface between the two. just outputs.

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02/29/08 + xLefr

I Agree

Here's Loq Ariou, a 3D modeler that sort of reminds me of what you're saying:
link

It gets out of the freaking way, and looks pretty doing it.

02/29/08 + rrooyyccee

xlefr,
that is really neat. i don't understand any of it.
i think you are meaning that a program like this allows the possiblity of working in a multidimensional spatial domain, clearly using precise and high res. calculus type operations?
are you already using it for music? or are you suggesting something like that could be used for music.
and finally, if you are using for non-musical stuff, what kind? i'd be interested.

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02/29/08 + rrooyyccee

since my wife is always using our one osx mac for email, leaving me with the os9 beast, i have not yet had the time to try this, but it looks neat?
link
try that with a midi stream.

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02/29/08 + rrooyyccee

while i am talking to myself, check out this gem.
link
My thought about this is what kind of effect pedal would this be best in?
Actually, I would want it as a transient for envelopes.
or since the frequency is low enough, a sub-bass oscillator (probably a sine wave) with a modulatable or knob-controlled "flock".
then shoot it 5mv triggers at differing rates (up to audio rate trigger frequencies).
It would be nice if the circuit was large to be able to bend it or alter conductivity with ones body. I tend to sweat so much it could be a sweat controlled synth. I'll stop now.

IEEE Trans Neural Netw. 2007 Nov;18(6):1815-25.Links
Synchrony in silicon: the gamma rhythm.Arthur JV, Boahen KA.
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. jarthur you know what goes here stanford.edu

In this paper, we present a network of silicon interneurons that synchronize in the gamma frequency range (20-80 Hz). The gamma rhythm strongly influences neuronal spike timing within many brain regions, potentially playing a crucial role in computation. Yet it has largely been ignored in neuromorphic systems, which use mixed analog and digital circuits to model neurobiology in silicon. Our neurons synchronize by using shunting inhibition (conductance based) with a synaptic rise time. Synaptic rise time promotes synchrony by delaying the effect of inhibition, providing an opportune period for interneurons to spike together. Shunting inhibition, through its voltage dependence, inhibits interneurons that spike out of phase more strongly (delaying the spike further), pushing them into phase (in the next cycle). We characterize the interneuron, which consists of soma (cell body) and synapse circuits, fabricated in a 0.25-microm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS). Further, we show that synchronized interneurons (population of 256) spike with a period that is proportional to the synaptic rise time. We use these interneurons to entrain model excitatory principal neurons and to implement a form of object binding.

PMID: 18051195 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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