SeedsResearchIdeasSynthesis

SEEDS RESEARCH IDEAS OUTPUT THE EARcochlear distortion products MARYANNE AMACHERusing the phenomenon in music PRESSNITZER & PATTERSON2001, how distortion products sumthe paper, pdf KENDALL, HAWORTH, CADIZ2014, synthesis with distortion productsthe paper NOTEBOOK 01a power-series model of the earread it here MAKE A PLUGIN A SCIENCE MANUAL THIRDEARinstrument, CLAP and VST3download, 8 MB download thirdear-1.3.3-win64.zip DB-WP-002the technical manualread the pdf download thirdear-note.pdf
SEEDS RESEARCH IDEAS OUTPUT SONIC FOUNDRY ACID1998, loop metadata inside the wav THE ODD FILESsampler dumps, console formats BROKEN FILESdecoding corrupted audio RIFF CONTAINERSthe chunk specificationsthe spec FLAC FORMATstream, blocks, framesthe spec MPEG FRAME HEADERSthe 32-bit header on every framethe header table ONE FIELD MODEL PUT IT BACK TOGETHER ACIDCATa byte-level audio file readersource on github AUDIO FILE ANATOMYa page per formatread the pages
SEEDS RESEARCH IDEAS OUTPUT CELLULAR AUTOMATAlocal rules, global structure BYTEBEATa waveform as a formula of time VINTAGE SOUND CHIPSwavetables in a few bytes WOLFRAMA New Kind of Sciencethe full text, free KONAMI SCC, K0516491987, rewritable 32-byte wavetablesthe register notes THE BOARDESP32-S3, no PSRAMthe hardware doc AN INSTRUCTION SET A MANUAL TO PROGRAM IT CICADA-8in the lab
SEEDS RESEARCH IDEAS OUTPUT THE CARDa bicycle, a card, a clothespin THE MOTOR LAWtorque falls as speed rises THE NOTEBOOKSmodelling the wheel-card coupling A WHEEL WITH INERTIAa physical model, not a sample A SCIENCE MANUAL WHEELIEinstrument, CLAP and VST3download, 7 MB download wheelie-0.13.0-beta-win64.zip DB-WP-001the technical manualread the pdf download wheelie-note.pdf

Projects

ThirdEar plays a comb of tones, or a close pair, above the note you press, and your own cochlea supplies the note itself. The pitch you hear is a distortion product: it is in your head, not in the file. Two modes from the literature, a phase control, and eleven presets named after the experiments they reproduce. Hold a chord and every key sounds its own phantom, tuned just so the products the combs make with each other land on the root of the chord. SPLIT sends half the comb to each ear: a product needs its tones in one cochlea, so the note moves an octave up. The COCHLEA view shows where each tone is felt and where the note is heard. A/B swaps what your ear makes for a real note from the speaker, and CANCEL cancels the phantom with a tone of your own. Use headphones, at the lowest level where the phantom is audible.

ThirdEar holding a C major chord, tuned just: one comb of tones near 3 kHz, and three phantoms, C4, E4 and G4, marked where the signal is empty, with the root of the chord at 65 Hz.

acidcat takes audio files apart byte by byte: headers, chunks, frame headers, anomalies, repairs. The anatomy pages came out of it, one per format, with inspectors you can hover. nibs the cat runs the theme toggle.

cicada-8 treats bytebeat programs as a population. Each one is a few bytes that sound, sense their neighbours and interfere, on a board with no memory to spare. In the lab.

wheelie keeps a card in bicycle spokes as physics rather than as a sample: a motor law couples the wheel to a control voltage and the card does the rest. A beta: the physics is tested, and the panel may still change before 1.0.

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