MUMT 307

Outline

• Term project ideas
• Granular synthesis
• Knobman: Revisited
• Physical modelling: Karplus-Stong

MUMT 307

Term project ideas

• Music Hack Day Tokyo 2014/02/21–23
• Pach.io
• C'mon
• You can do better than this!
• Don't forget about APIs: Wasabeat (use Firefox), Echonest, Soundcloud, etc.
• MIDI playback
• 8-bit procedural sounds library
• Another knob library

MUMT 307

Granular synthesis

• Demo 1
• Sample music
• MachFive demo
• Alchemy demo
• Demo 2
• Use the second unused "release" dial for "ramp" (lab)
• Add dial for "position" (lab)

MUMT 307

Knobman: Revisited (lab)

• Demo 1
• Add sound effects
• Soundjay.com
• Sounddogs.com
• Demo 2
• Knobman gallery
• Add a knob to this
• Here is an example
• Another example (use Firefox)

MUMT 307

Physical modelling: Karplus-Strong algorithm (lab)

• Working demo
• Version 1
• Version 2
• Version 3
• Version 4
• Write a pluck() function so that it will play repeatedly
• What's wrong with this? (Version 5)
• Fixed (Version 6)
• Slightly more efficient (Version 7)
• The Karplus-Strong algorithm

MUMT 307

More Karplus-Strong algorithm

• Add frequency slider
• Karplus-Strong 1983 paper
• KS-drum
• KS-strech
• KS-general