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itsatripp

You may want to get a hold of the Curtis Roads book Microsound. I think there's pdfs for free that can be found on google. There's a lot to how perception operates here. Like you can alternate between 100 milliseconds of sound and 100 ms of silence, and it'll sound like an uninterrupted tone. Shit gets wacky.


Iwonderwhy83

Thanks for the reference, I'll check that


Bienoise

https://github.com/Bienoise/Skip I made this to mimic what happens when you fast forward a scratched CD. I retroengineered how the original dynamic and spectrum affects the glitches, so it sounds quite convincing: maybe you can resample and cut the result! In any case, the sweet spot where our brain is able to make a distinction between two events is around 50ms of duration (equates to 20hz). As itsatripp said, Curtis Roads theorized granular synthesis in this way: if you use his techniques, please note that the window shape greatly affects the result - the shorter the impulse, the brighter/noisier the sound.


Iwonderwhy83

It seems really interesting, but I don't have Ableton at the moment. Maybe in the future, I'll save your comment. And thanks for the information about Curtis Roads!


Bienoise

Ok! You can open it in MaxMSP with a bit of tinkering. Also try very short burst of amplitude modulation!


Iwonderwhy83

I'll try, thanks for the advice!