[chuck-users] function for creating 8 bit waveforms from expressions

Ronni Montoya ronni.montoya at gmail.com
Fri Dec 27 02:46:41 EST 2013


Hi list, i been reading a paper that talks about an approach for
generating sound that uses functions to directly shape waveforms. The
function receives "expresions" as argument and it generates different
kind of 8 bit waveforms from the expressions.

An expression can look like this:

f(t) = t * ( t >> 8 * ( t >>15 | t >> 8) & 20 | ( t >>19) * 5 >> t | t >> 3))



The paper describes the algorithm in this way:


algorithm 1 :
Construction of an 8-bit waveform of 8000Hz  sample rate:

The function has 2 inputs :

Input 1) a functional expresion f(t)
Input  2 ) time durations in seconds (d)
Output: the waveform of an audio signal with seconds duration


for t = 1 to d8000 do
     if f(t) ==NaN then
         q(t)  <-- 0
      else
         q(t) <-- mod(f(t)), 256)
     end if
     s(t) <-- 2 q(t)/255 - 1
end for


If its possible to implement this approach for generating sound in chuck??




cheers


R.


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