Patch a day challenge #27

You can download the patch here. Easiest way to use it yourself is to install pd-extended and add rjlib. Oh Friday. Playing around a bit with a bouncing ball patch from Andy Farnell’s book Designing Sound. Added some randomization, added some movement. Then created whole bunch of them at the same time. Not the most …

Patch a day challenge #26

You can download the patch here. Easiest way to use it yourself is to install pd-extended and add rjlib. Today’s setup wasn’t really about pd. The heart was a metal slinky. Addded to it a small attachable speaker and a Jez Riley French contact microphone. So, it was this spring reverb feedback experiment. I hadnt …

Patch a day challenge #25

You can download the patch here. Easiest way to use it yourself is to install pd-extended and add rjlib. Today I was intrigued by sample & hold, and was playing around with noise and what it did. I learned there is a limit to how many delay lines pd likes to have. And how many …

Patch a day challenge #24

You can download the patch here. Easiest way to use it yourself is to install pd-extended and add rjlib. I wanted ot mess a bit further with FM today. I ended up making the world’s ugliest pure data patch. no doubt. Its a space engine sound where you control the RPM. This then drives various …

Patch a day challenge #22

You can download the patch here. Easiest way to use it yourself is to install pd-extended and add rjlib. Today I wanted to work on metal hits. I started out by taking a recording, analysing it a bit. Then I started with baselayer of additive synthesis. On top of that I created an transient with …

Patch a day challenge #21

You can download the patch here. Easiest way to use it yourself is to install pd-extended and add rjlib. A study in comb filtering, feedback and ms processing. In this case the feedback is interesting because how you pan a sound determined how it fed back into the patch. The Mid goes back into a …

Patch a day challenge #20

You can download the patch here. Easiest way to use it yourself is to install pd-extended and add rjlib. Its a bit hard for me to describe today’s proces because im sitting behind the tv with the family. I wanted to simplify a little bit and see what else i could get out of some …

Patch a day challenge #19

You can download the patch here. Easiest way to use it yourself is to install pd-extended and add rjlib. Today I started messing about with comb filter and feedback. At one point it got into this “digital ocean wave” type of sound. about 0:50. But it was really a very wide spectrum of sounds I …

Patch a day challenge #18

You can download the patch here. Easiest way to use it yourself is to install pd-extended and add rjlib. Today I had very little time. So i wanted to do something simple but goal oriented. So taking again from Andy Farnell’s book “Designing Sound” I toke practical number 1. It suggests an exercise where you …