On 29/11/2007, Graham Coleman <ravelite@gmail.com> wrote:

This is indeed a neat feature of StifKarp. Have a nice plucky tune
playing, and then send it some really low notes to make percussive
explosions.

More instruments should have this kind of non-linear / discontinuous
timbre change.

Yeah, I love it.

Last night I had a nice moment of Livecode practice on headphones, I'm moving my GF to a new place and have my laptop on her piano with scribled notes on the sheet-msuic stand :-)

Anyway, if you put a Envelope over the StifKarp and pluck it with some very, very low frequencies, then re-tune to something reasonable while ramping up the envelope (without plucking again!) you get the nicest evolving textures while the whole system re-ballances itself. Lots of fun at only ten or so lines of code. I have yet to get into some of the more advanced parameters of StifKarp I think a lot more could be done with it... And there are still some STK instruments I didn't even try, it's like a treasure trove of fun stuff!. So far I think my favourite is the Shakers, the Shakers is/are perfect for doing wat I call "gremlin techno"; techno as played by a ensemble of Gremlins that broke into a garage.

Good times.

Cheers,
Kas.