Hello there!

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted something useful. Of course, I really do hope you’ve enjoyed the QM synthesis, and also I hope you won’t put the idea on a dusty shelf.

Now, I’ve set my hardware and software back to life, I’ve got another xDSL connection which makes a big difference to me. Now I’m ready to comeback to posting my ideas. Next few days I’ll be working in Reaktor, then it’s gonna happen.

Hey guys! The last post was a giant block to the site fundamental. I put quite a lot of efforts into the post, but now I realize that’s not my maximum. There are still interesting thoughts and ideas to share, a long way to go. I’m not really if Dave Pape has read my blog and get inspired, and I’m quite sure the general idea of my blog is flying in the air these days, but he’s started a Reakor diary at blogspot. I couldn’t put any serious attention to the blog yet, but I think it’s great it goes detailed and video attached. And one of the main reasons for my long delay after the recent post is my new hdd’s crash down. I’m building my new PC system and recently bought Samsung SpinPoint 160G hard disk drive. The drive was working for 5 days without a flaw, next day it began to experience huge calibration problems for some strange reason. And right after I managed to back up all the data it just died, it died next reboot right after the backup. There was no risk to lose any important data including my Reaktor related stuff, but still quite unusual death case for a drive. See you soon! P.S. The artwork uses my old IBM deskstar 80G which is also dead

Intro

It’s hard to believe it’s still possible to invent something new and simple nowadays. It’s harder to believe it’s still possible to invent something simple and useful. What would you say if I say I’ve invented a new kind of sound synthesis? I guess you’d call me a liar or fool. Well, the thing I’m typing here is my experience, a small bit, a little flash in my head occurred something like a year or two ago. Maybe it’s already invented; maybe it’s a question of when. I’m typing my experience to leave my footsteps; to be able to look back at things shaped my life path. I don’t live for money, I don’t live for emotions nobody care of, I don’t collect stuff, I do collect my own thoughts before my personality is disappeared. The idea described below is my everyday challenge to the world – there are still simple things to discover.

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There are 60 full spectrum (0-22050hz) sonograms for the selected snapshots sounds of Quantum Radio ensemble. The time scale vary within one or a few seconds. Keep in mind that the ensemble doesn’t contain any automated modules – LFO, ADSR, step-sequencers and etc. No FX-processing has not been applied neither .

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Hello my silent visitors

I’ve finished to build Reaktor ensemble that contain something that will show how serious it’s going to be, how clear my ideas are. I know I have not much of publishing experience. I know my English looks strange, probably. I know the site is mostly empty at the moment. But I clearly see reasons I started the project, reasons I’ll continue the work. Due to specificity of the information and preparations processes the ensemble and the all the promised stuff will be published in next post.

During building the ensemble I realized that how much I don’t like these simple multi-wave oscillators based on cross-fading I decided to waste an extra week to redesign this *classic* building block. I didn’t want to ruin a lot of time and I wasn’t sure in my success. Today I finished the redesigned oscillator, and I decided to put it out as another separate post. Basically, I don’t like the fact I have not a clear publishing strategy for the blog. Since the way it goes now reminds me back engineering I think I should make it more clear to myself first.

Anyway, the thing I don’t like about these simple multi-wave oscillators is that most of them produce separated waves. And since the output waves (Tri, Sin, Pls, Saw) have quite different trigonometric nature it’s quite ineffective to mix them down to one wave. The mixing result looks and sounds predictably boring. I said “not this time, baby” and sat down to brainstorm. (more…)

I have to admit it takes more time to build an ensemble that would dumbfound you. But it almost done. I’m about to start write text and make visuals. Also I’m going to contact a couple of persons before publish the post, because I need to confirm that my *5% CPU-1200Mhz load* is going to separate the world of synthesis to before and after. That’s funny to be excited about it. The funny thing is that even at worst case I think you’ll be surprised.
Anyway, I think one more post with a couple of tips won’t be superfluous for Reaktor newbies at least. There we go…
One of the oldest thing I use is Pitch2Factor converter. Sometimes it’s useful to have note-pitch as a scaling factor. (more…)

A couple more of small macros I did for some of visuals for the idea I’m going to publish in next post, GetDigit and LCDigit: (more…)