Hi moudi, There are many aspects of Shakers that are opaque to me, but from what I can glean from the source, in the guiro (3) and wrench (10) presets of Shakers there is a notion of "ratchet position". This I assume is the position of the scraping object (the ratchet) along the notched surface. The position of the ratchet determines the number of individual ratchet sounds and thus the length of the produced sound. Taking a look at the source, the ratchet position starts out at 10 when you call preset(3); it is increased by 1 each time you call noteOn; it decreases for each actual ratchet sound that is heard; and it is set to 0 when you call noteOff. Thus, calling noteOn several times is one possible way to set the ratchet position to a certain level. Alternatively, you could call preset(3) to reset the position to 10 each time. I'm not sure if this is the best approach, but it works. spencer On Mar 21, 2007, at 3:36 PM, Leuthold Dominik wrote:
hi list
i made some sounds with the shakers ugen and was surprised that with some presets the sound was cutted away for all cycles after the first one. this happens not with all presets (eg. preset 5 works well, 3 not).
i used this simple code:
Shakers s => dac; s.preset(3); s.gain(2); s.freq(Note.C2);
while(true) { s.noteOn(1); 2::second => now; s.noteOff(0); }
is there anything i should consider using this ugen?
thanks /moudi
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