KVR Audio

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Wed May 07, 2008 3:53 am

http://www.breathcube.com/msres16.mp3

i developed ~a resonator filter that has low cpu usage and is suitable for this sort of thing.. SEMs for synthedit users are at
http://www.breathcube.com/msres7.zip
http://www.breathcube.com/msres3.zip
(with more on the way..)

the smaller vs are suitable for smaller bells and poly percussion sound.

each resonant band is sinusoid, the advantage over additive synths is that it has a built in decay, the model responds to the frequency of the input, so requires very little computation to modulate the emphasis of bands.. i'm using a linear impulse envelope to 'strike,' changing the time of the envelope is enough to emphasise low to high bands.

i guess these kinds of sounds have limited musical interest and the task may be met by stuff people already have, so should i bother with a gui other people can understand?

demo mp3 is first take, bands should be sequenced from low to high to have controlled dynamic output. you can hear the timbre, and it 'plays nice' when set up correctly..

if you want it.. each band can have separate pitch and emphasis sliders.. 32 sliders is a lot to set.. i can add a cheesy multiband tremolo for 'bell rotation' effects too if requested.

these are all ~'percussed singing bowl' sounds, it can do most bells, doesn't have enough sizzle and whang for a gong hit, only touch.

cpu is about the same as 1 voice of 2 osc subtractive synthedit synth.

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Wed May 07, 2008 4:42 am

apoligies, host kept dumping the u/l

Terrafractyl · Post by **Terrafractyl** » Wed May 07, 2008 5:09 am

well I think that sounds quite spectacular!

I love a good bell sound and that is a VERY nice bell sound
please make this synth!

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Wed May 07, 2008 6:03 am

i think i can shmooze a non-percussed singing bowl out of it as well, so it's a deal.

Asuyuka · Post by **Asuyuka** » Wed May 07, 2008 6:25 am

Please xoxos? Pleeeeease?

ThunderDrums · Post by **ThunderDrums** » Wed May 07, 2008 3:52 pm

Some sounds in that demo were very "distant and haunting" sounding and I need just that sound as we speak. I think a bell synth by you would be quite the thing indeed, fancy Interface or not.

Cheers

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Wed May 07, 2008 4:02 pm

Very promising! When will you release a VSTi?

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Wed May 07, 2008 6:01 pm

Shane Sanders wrote:Very promising! When will you release a VSTi?

all along i've been thinking "this is shane's kind of sound.."

won't be too fancy, couple of days. td if you need it "now" i should be able to send you something rudimentary this evening

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Wed May 07, 2008 6:11 pm

--->friction synth--->glass armonica?

for which i've already indicated interest (i.e. i "need" it now, without which, life...etc).

very pretty either way. reminds me of a documentary i saw maybe 25-30 years ago where some "desert-dwelling nutter" on the fringes of society had a back yard full of nuclear junk from which he had fashioned sort of sci-fi wind-chimes. some one here will probably - blimey, there goes a squirrel! sorry - know who he was.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Wed May 07, 2008 6:41 pm

xoxos wrote:
Shane Sanders wrote:Very promising! When will you release a VSTi?
all along i've been thinking "this is shane's kind of sound.."

won't be too fancy, couple of days. td if you need it "now" i should be able to send you something rudimentary this evening

Cool! I can wait as I have an album cover to finish designing this week during the evenings. This will definitely get a workout from me, though. The sound is definitely the sort of thing that I hear myself using alongside some newly discovered drone techniques.

One question. Does the plan include an ADSR? That approach to sound would also be incredible with the attack trimmed.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Wed May 07, 2008 7:03 pm

xoxos wrote:i think i can shmooze a non-percussed singing bowl out of it as well, so it's a deal.

Well, if I'd read the thread I'd see you already plan to do that!

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Wed May 07, 2008 7:25 pm

ja, it's a 16-band resonator, similar to 16 band passes except they're run in series with the agitator at one end and a fixed point at the other.

the lower count versions are better for effects, ~sound like a bank of parametrics.

we were in a plane crash and we had to eat each others anubis to survive.

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Wed May 07, 2008 11:46 pm

xoxos wrote:http://www.breathcube.com/msres16.mp3

i developed ~a resonator filter that has low cpu usage and is suitable for this sort of thing.. SEMs for synthedit users are at
http://www.breathcube.com/msres7.zip
http://www.breathcube.com/msres3.zip
(with more on the way..)

the smaller vs are suitable for smaller bells and poly percussion sound.

This kind of instrument is very useful to set or modify the mood in a song,
and can add creative mystery to old warn-out sounds

stanlea · Post by **stanlea** » Thu May 08, 2008 7:02 am

I like it too. Tinkle bells.

Optomadic · Post by **Optomadic** » Thu May 08, 2008 7:12 am

Sounds awesome, but everything you make is pretty much this way

!

interested? pm "bell.."