Re: [racket-users] Mozart's Musical dice with rsound

2018-03-30 Thread Daniel Prager
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 7:18 PM, Thomas F. Burdick wrote: > > > If you want to better understand why you need an envelope, it's a pretty > fun part of synthesis. By clipping the sound, you square off your waveform. > Square waves are made up of a lot of high-frequency components. To convince > yo

Re: [racket-users] Mozart's Musical dice with rsound

2018-03-30 Thread Thomas F. Burdick
On March 29, 2018 11:40:29 PM GMT+02:00, Daniel Prager wrote: >*Areas for improvement * > >1. There is an unpleasant quality to the ends of the notes, which I >generate by naively clipping piano-tones. Furthermore, if I up the >tempo >(e.g. set BEAT-LENGTH to 1/4) it becomes unlistenable. What

Re: [racket-users] Mozart's Musical dice with rsound

2018-03-29 Thread Daniel Prager
Thanks John I've made updates (below) based on your suggestions, and the overall effect is pleasing. 1. The use of asdr fixed the choppiness, although I don't really understand what I'm doing. [I understand that asdr stands for Attack-Decay-Sustain-Release

Fwd: [racket-users] Mozart's Musical dice with rsound

2018-03-29 Thread 'John Clements' via Racket Users
Oops forgot to cc: users. Dan, if you respond, could you respond to this one rather than the one I sent only to you? Sorry. John > Begin forwarded message: > > From: John Clements > Subject: Re: [racket-users] Mozart's Musical dice with rsound > Date: March 29, 2018

[racket-users] Mozart's Musical dice with rsound

2018-03-29 Thread Daniel Prager
For fun, I've written a program to synthesise random compositions based on Mozart's musical dice procedure, with results played courtesy of rsound. [Program appended.] See this Daily Programmer challenge for background: https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/7i1ib1/20171206_challenge_3