source file: m1559.txt Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:12:14 +0530 Subject: Re: Cancelling out beats From: Drew Skyfyre HI, Sorry for the delay with my 2 cents. I haven't had access to the internet for over a week, and when I did yesterday I had to do it on Windows, an absurd program called Explorer, and an absolutely idiotic-unintuitive mail (apparently) program called Outlook (which managed to destroy some of my mail). Coincidentally all 3 apps are made by the same obscure North-West American company. I don't know much about all this yet, but might what Brad is talking about and Sethares' approach be achieved using additive synthesis ? It just seems the logical solution. There's bound to be a lot of info on the mighty mighty infobahn about additive. Greg Sandell's SHARC Timbre database also (I think) has some info that is of use, since there's been mention on the Sharc list about people using the data to build sounds in the Kawai K-5000 additive synths (I wonder if they have any microtuning capability) . If you don't have access to any real-time additive synthesis system (Kyma, K-5000, MSP,etc.) , there's always building samples in any of the free software synthesis systems (Csound, Syd, etc.) and loading them into a sampler like Vsamp (on a PowerMac). BTW, Kyma is now just $3300 for the base unit (four 80 MHz dsps, 96 MB RAM , digital i/o) and it's new and improved: "Based on the new Motorola DSP-56309 chip running at 80 MHz, the Capybara 320 base unit is now available for US$3300 and provides a minimum of four DSPs (expandable to 28) with multi-channel I/O, synchronization to external clocks, and 96 MB of sample RAM (expandable to 672 Mb) in a low-noise, rack-mountable package connected to a desktop or laptop Macintosh or Windows PC." This beaut is getting more and more affordable (compared to many of the commercial synths and samplers around,it's actually cheap !) and powerful...... -Drew ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air."-Sylvia Plath "Ricka-racka-firecracker,Sis-boom-bah. Bugs Bunny,Bugs Bunny,Rah Rah Rah !" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------