[chuck-users] [livecode] granular music recommendations?

[Michael Heuer]

Kassen wrote:

> ...
> Yes, I agree. I used to work a lot with "chorus" type sounds, not the
> popular effect but the way a actual chorus (of people) works; I'd use a few
> paralel tone generators to build up a single sound. At the start of a not
> they'd play at the set pitch + some random offset and over the cource of the
> note the scaling of that offset would decrease, leading to a single pitch,
> like singers tuning to eachother.

Cool, I would love to have a guitar-pedal-style effect that worked that way.

I was thinking of using my implementation of PSO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_swarm_optimization

but I suppose any non-linear optimization technique to bring the
"chorusers" together would sound cool.  Not sure how to do the
realtime pitch-shifting though.

   michael