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Granular Synthesis [Thonk and Cecilia]

Granular Synthesis [Thonk and Cecilia]. Pre-Class Music. Curtis Roads nscor. Granular Synthesis Overview. Any sound can be thought of as containing discrete particles. A grain of sound typically lasts from 1 to 100 ms. Each grain shaped by an amplitude envelope.

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Granular Synthesis [Thonk and Cecilia]

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  1. Granular Synthesis[Thonk and Cecilia]

  2. Pre-Class Music • Curtis Roadsnscor

  3. Granular Synthesis Overview • Any sound can be thought of as containing discrete particles. • A grain of sound typically lasts from 1 to 100 ms. • Each grain shaped by an amplitude envelope. • very short envelopes, and envelopes with sharp curves, produce added frequencies in the spectrum. • Sound parameters (pitch, panning, duration, envelope, location in sound file, wave type, etc) change on a grain-by-grain basis. Parameters are static within each grain.

  4. High-Level Organization of Grains • Synchronous and Asynchronous. • quality of synchronicity refers to how parameters are controlled, usually grain duration, density, and transposition. • Pitch-Synchronous Overlapping Streams • Tone Machine in Kontakt. Pre-Analysis needed. • Quasi-Synchronous Streams • grain length modified, but grains generally follow at regular intervals (related to AM). Can be used to time-stretch/compress and transpose • Asynchronous “Clouds” • all parameters independently controlled.

  5. Reading • Roads, pp. 168 - 184 • Kontakt manual, description of Tone Machine and Time Machine.

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