[ubuntu-studio-users] audio morphing

[bart deruyter]

Hey,

thanks for the replies. After I sent the email, I thought of pd and csound
too. Recently I discovered Cecilia5 which seems to be using csound.
Unfortunately Cecilia5 in ubuntu's repositories is not working, the one
downloaded from their website does work luckily. I haven't found morphing
yet in the modules, but will check it out a bit more. There is plenty of
granular synthesis going on in it. After some research I also found chuck,
anyone experience with it?

Emulated synths are indeed not good in general, in linux. But there are
some really interesting projects going on, most often using sample based
instruments.

Lacking too is virtual singers which I would let sing lyrics. There are
plenty for other operating systems (all propriatary of course), and of
really good quality. It may sound stupid, many would reply "go get a real
singer" or "sing it yourself", but for choir work for example it is way too
expensive (and I don't have a multiple personality disorder to be a choir
:-) ).
I'm getting into making music for games now so that's another thing I could
use very well if I stick to open source tools.
The same I can say about all virtual equivalents of acoustic instruments in
general. A friend of mine, running windows, Cubase and Kontakt has a
virtual Steinway, connected to it's keyboard, you can even hear the pedals
and the harmonics of the strings.

So far I try to be creative and figure out new and good sounds with what I
have in linux and open source. It works, and it actually makes me more
creative, but it limits myself too. In other words, I often have to sound
'alternative' or 'experimental' also when I don't want it.

I'll look into pd again, I have in the past, but it seemed intimidating. I
am a musician, not a sound engineer and having to dig up and study theory
about how sound is composed in terms of frequencies, phases, amplitude,
synthesis, oscilators and such is of course rewarding when it's about
gaining knowledge but not that productive if I just have to get my music
done. The best thing would of course be a plugin for ardour :-p, but hey,
if it does not exist, I'll try some hacking anyway :-) .

grtz,
Bart

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2016-04-03 19:35 GMT+02:00 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>:

> On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 11:40:23 -0500, David Hughes wrote:
> >if you dare to hack, puredata has many vocoding and granular synthesis
> >patches that play well with jackd.  You can find examples in the pd
> >manual.
>
> If the OP does use a search engine, at least csound is mentioned
> too, but I doubt that using puredata and csound has much to do with
> what most musicians ask for. Linux at least provides some weak vocoders
> or vocoder alike effects, that are available as plugins, without the
> need to use a building set. However, "morphing" isn't a Linux domain.
> FWIW, if I compare proprietary virtual synth for another operating
> system, then my opinion is, that emulations of Oberheim SEM and similar
> analog synth allow to produce more interesting sounds, with less work,
> than all those new fashion synth, that usually include granular
> synthesis and what ever else to morph sounds. Excepted of Hexter which
> comes close to a real DX7 and that isn't one of the anlog monsters as
> the SEM, emulation of good synth isn't a Linux domain either.
>
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