KVR Audio

g200kg · Post by **g200kg** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:35 pm

any problems or comments?
feel free to post

wakax · Post by **wakax** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:37 pm

is quite a good plug !
thanks !
could be great if it could load wav and show it as editable spectrum.

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:39 pm

having a lot of fun with it

no problems at all. can you explain a bit about how the image is interpreted as sound data? like colors, space/contrast seem to factor in. the only other experience i have with this sort of thing is with alchemy and before that the generator inside of flstudio.

g200kg · Post by **g200kg** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:30 pm

ok, brief explanation

the Pixel value Red and Green(0-255) are used to determine the strength of the harmonics.
Red for L-ch and Green for R-ch. Blue is ignored.

Y-Axis:
the black pixel is silent. the bright pixels means strong harmonics for that freq.
the "A4=440" (red) line means 440Hz if you play the note 'A4'.
"880" line is 880Hz if you play the note 'A4', and so on...

X-Axis is time-line.

yes,
briefly, the current time vertical line of the bitmap is converted by Inverse FFT and interpolated.

justified · Post by **justified** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 6:19 pm

Nice plugin, thank you!
I also like your other plugins especially ProtoPSG psg-005.

jobromedia · Post by **jobromedia** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:00 pm

This is a really good plugin. A thing I miss tho is gradient lines from white to black, and red to green. Another suggestion: Let blue control the phattness of the sound, and add a button to toggle this on or off, as you can do in Coagula.

steponeloops · Post by **steponeloops** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:21 pm

wakax wrote:could be great if it could load wav and show it as editable spectrum.

+1

very nice, indeed!

mtyas · Post by **mtyas** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:53 am

Thanks for this fantastic synth, I'm amazed. I was dreaming for something just like this in the last month, I've been playing around like mad with drawings in audio spectostyle stuff, and this is the perfect tool. I'll post a few examples of the silly things I'm doing with it very soon, but before I do, please let me say thanks, and thanks again, I really love this synth

cosmonauttransfer · Post by **cosmonauttransfer** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:29 pm

I liked it and can see it being used to create weird fx for my ambient and spacerock projects. Many thanks

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:52 pm

g200kg wrote:ok, brief explanation

the Pixel value Red and Green(0-255) are used to determine the strength of the harmonics.
Red for L-ch and Green for R-ch. Blue is ignored.

Y-Axis:
the black pixel is silent. the bright pixels means strong harmonics for that freq.
the "A4=440" (red) line means 440Hz if you play the note 'A4'.
"880" line is 880Hz if you play the note 'A4', and so on...

X-Axis is time-line.

yes,
briefly, the current time vertical line of the bitmap is converted by Inverse FFT and interpolated.

fascinating! suddenly i am full of fun ideas to try

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:10 pm

This is one of those "right up my alley" kinda tools.

REALLY interesting, serendipituous, and FUN to figure out how to make something reasonably 'predictable'... enjoying it very much.

Thank you

g200kg · Post by **g200kg** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:31 pm

Thank you all

today, i updated SpectroBits to 1.01
just a bugfix for sometimes crash if you change preset during Note-on.

jobromedia · Post by **jobromedia** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:50 pm

There is a tiny bug I noticed. When you release a note then suddenly the synth gets out a low bump when the release is set to anything but zero.

Jonas78 · Post by **Jonas78** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:56 pm

Fun plugin for sure!

Wish you could use a 'sample-file' as oscillator source, like you can in audiopaint ( http://www.nicolasfournel.com/audiopaint.htm ).

mtyas · Post by **mtyas** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:46 am

I did a very short article in french about spectogrammes and a few videos using SpectroBits : http://elektriklab.com/2009/11/03/dessinons-le-son/

SpectroBits by g200kg