Sound morphing VSTs

[Barbed Wire Kiss]

I've considered this in the past. Unsatisfactually I've tried crossfading. And as an alternative I tried a hi-pass filter on one sound and a lo-pass on the other, with corresponding cut-off point for a more spectual crossfade.

Unfortunately neither were satisfactory, so I started thinking of a synthesis of the two. From wherehence I came up with the idea of having two graphic equalisers. With an eq on the source sound which would start at a neutral level, and an eq on the destination sound which would be cutting the sound completely to start with. I'm not sure how many bands, but 512 came to mind.

Through the steps of the morph, bands of equal positions would simultaneously start to cut the source sound, while starting to boost the destination. At first I was thinking it could do randomly, with enough bands and steps, the random nature of it even out as the two sound morphed into each other. Being random the morph would be interesting but maybe not so smoove. So I starting to think that maybe a more tactically approach, so some analysis would be needed first.

Now I'm not sure if this (makes any sense? ) sounds like a vocoder, or is how, many of the morphing software mentioned work, but it would be an interesting method.

[rs_ml]

Hmm, as I was refering to graphical morphing I surly didn't mean
x-fading. In the graphical world you choose corresponding lines/points
in two different images and create a gradual transformation,
distorting the image into the new positions and blending the image
content.

Thanks for all the feedback, lot of things to try out, RS

[Barbed Wire Kiss]

Hmm, as I was refering to graphical morphing I surly didn't mean
x-fading. In the graphical world you choose corresponding lines/points
in two different images and create a gradual transformation,
distorting the image into the new positions and blending the image content.

In animation that called 'Treening, as in Between. When I was doing my A levels I wrote a program to do this with two 2D shapes. It would be interesting to do it with partials. In a way, if you had enough eq bands, so there would be a band-per-partial this would have the same effect.

[rs_ml]

Tweening is blending shapes, right ...

I was thinking what happens if you turn the audio in images and
morph them ... but I couldn't create a good, highres spectral
image with the software I found ... RS

[spacedad]

but really, x-fading is so not morphing. as a last resort, yeah, it'll do, but if you're really after a morph, it's just not a morph.

So, what *is* a morph?

[brewt]

CsoundVST has (almost) all of csound in it, which includes morphing, resynthesis, etc., etc.

Tradeoff: You'd have to throw a powerful lot of time at it to *write* the routine to get the effect you want (not to mention the time needed to learn how), and it really really won't do realtime for something like morphing.

I keep wondering why there isn't more development done on the instruments for this for vst-ness. Payoff certainly seems big.

Oh wait, I know. It's hard.



-bjc

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[rs_ml]

Has anybody tried morphing with Steinberg Plex - it seems it's no longer
available, but had some interesting features on the list?