Last creation : "The Pond" a noisy synth

clerphil 2018-01-18 15:55:02 UTC #1

Here is my last creation, a little synth that mimics the noises of a pound fauna ( insects, birds, batracians ).
Enclosed in a cigar box that I have painted and with an Axoloti Core inside, of course.
Only 4 buttons.
2 for volume of left and right audio output and 2 for variations of the sounds.
Very slow LFOs change the parameters in a constant and unpredictable way.
Here is the patch, very simple as you can see.
BIRDS-2.axp (16.9 KB)

SmashedTransistors 2018-01-20 15:34:06 UTC #2

That's a great project @clerphil, thanks for sharing
Great enclosure and great ambient sounds.

I think it is quite interesting to study and somewhat recreate bird songs.
There is a lot of studies around (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0024516) but I think it can lead to something very poetic, such as re creating birds answering to each others.

clerphil 2018-01-20 19:15:46 UTC #3

Thanks for your interesting post and the link.
It seems very complicated.
But that will perhaps encourage me to explore new territories.

SmashedTransistors 2018-01-20 20:22:24 UTC #4

It is quite complicated because they study how birds compose songs as sequences of "words", i.e. modulated sounds. These songs can be used in different contexts, for example to recognize birds of the same species or even birds of the same "family" (singing an almost similar repertoire).

Maybe there are some sequencing objects on the Axoloti that could be used to make such sequences ?... Anyway, great work with the LFOs !

jfcharles 2018-01-26 19:59:42 UTC #5

Excellent, bravo, j'aime beaucoup.

clerphil 2018-01-26 22:02:08 UTC #6

Merci jfcharles.
Bon encouragement !

Moutcast 2018-04-29 18:40:39 UTC #7

thanks @clerphil it inspired me to make some birds as well. i used some simple markov chain chance sequencing as following the artical suggested by @SmashedTransistors

trimardius 2020-05-18 10:37:41 UTC #8

Hi Moutcast,

I like the sound of your patch and especially the (seemingly?) speaking to echother, I mean each other
Would you mind sharing the patch so I can have a look at it?

grts!

Moutcast 2020-05-18 12:21:18 UTC #9

i will try to find it. it was two years ago that i made it....

trimardius 2020-05-26 08:59:15 UTC #10

Hi Moutcast,

without willing to stress you out, did you find the chance to look for the patch?
If not, don't bother, we all have other interesting things to do

grts!

Moutcast 2020-05-26 10:32:45 UTC #11

@trimardius sorry for the delay. here it is:BIRDS-2.axp (16.9 KB)

let me know if you did something with it

btw i am also taveling with the axo in my hand lugage around the world. no problem ever yet.

greetings jens

trimardius 2020-05-26 11:05:22 UTC #12

Hi Moutcast,

thanks for your reply.
Allas, the patch you attached is the Clerphil version. Not the one you show on the video with 3 birds..

Moutcast 2020-05-26 11:20:45 UTC #13

oh shit sorry, did not open it.birds cat dog wind.axp (11.7 KB)

trimardius 2020-05-26 11:23:38 UTC #14

Thanks a lot! I'll have a look at it tonight!
grts!

Moutcast 2020-05-26 11:48:50 UTC #15

@trimardius

haha, just opened them. the last one uploaded was also not the one from the video. but a very nice one too, which intergrated ambienty sounds synthecically created together with some artificial cats and dogs
here is finaly the one from the video. sorry for beeing unorganised
markov my won.axp (28.2 KB)

trimardius 2020-05-26 11:54:55 UTC #16

recognisable scenario.
thanks a lot!