Since I am a beginner I am probably doing it all wrong
Using a midi number range 0-127 appended with .midicps correctly converts linear frequency values , but I also want to modulate them with an evelope
.I get a loud click at the start , so I assume this is not the correct way of doing it .
Ididn’t scale the envelope becasue of this which I assume would be in the range 0-127 for midi values)
I also noticed ( second block of code ) that the plot doesn’t work , maybe becasue of this click ?
(
{
var sig,sig1,mod;
mod=EnvGen.kr(Env([0,3,0],[0.001,5],[0,-5]));
sig=Saw.ar([48,48].midicps);
sig1=LPF.ar(sig,((80.midicps)*mod));
}.play)
///
(
{
var sig,sig1,mod;
mod=EnvGen.kr(Env([0,1,0],[0.001,5],[0,-5]));
sig=Saw.ar([48,48].midicps);
sig1=LPF.ar(sig,(80.midicps*mod));
}.plot(0.2))
///
https://doc.sccode.org/Classes/LPF.html#*ar
LPF.ar(in: 0.0, freq: 440.0, mul: 1.0, add: 0.0)
[…]
freq: Cutoff frequency in Hertz. WARNING: due to the nature of its implementation frequency values close to 0 may cause glitches and/or extremely loud audio artifacts!
your frequency input to LPF is near 0 at the start of the synth.
I am aware that the filter freq values are in Hertz
The point is that I am using midicps to convert hertz to midi values , 80 mdicps in filtercode block , and I want to scale the evleope accordingly , so in the range 1-127 (log midi values )
The envelope has a low value , because higher values give me loud pops
If you run the code , you would have noticed that + the reason why the plot doesn’t giva a graph back .( it’s blank )
So , I am still looking for a way to scale the envelope to range 1-127
here’s a fully opened filter using 127.midicps , so why is the manual stating it’s hertz only ?
(
{
var sig,sig1,mod;
sig=Saw.ar([48,48].midicps);
sig1=LPF.ar(sig,120.midicps);
}.play
)
And one modulated with Line , I just can’t achieve the same result with EnvGen
(
{
var sig,sig1,mod;
sig=Saw.ar([48,48].midicps);
sig1=LPF.ar(sig,Line.kr(120,30,10).midicps);
}.play
)
Got it working ,
////
(
{
var sig,sig1,mod,justaline,anotherline;
anotherline=EnvGen.kr(Env([127,30],[10],[0]));
justaline=Line.ar(120,30,10);
sig=Saw.ar([48,48].midicps);
sig1=LPF.ar(sig,anotherline.midicps);
}.play
)
///
I can just use the midicps in the envelope , directly after the value array
(
{
var sig,sig1,mod,anotherline;
anotherline=EnvGen.kr(Env([100,1,0].midicps,[1],[0,0]));
sig=Saw.ar([48,48].midicps);
sig1=LPF.ar(sig,anotherline);
}.play
)
///
it’s all floating point numbers. the documentation is saying the value is interpreted as a frequency in hz.
just to be clear, this will give you linear motion in frequency space and not pitch space; they are not interchangeable.
i did run the code, what makes you think i didn’t?
for linear motion in the pitch space if you would want to specify \exp for the curves
anotherline=EnvGen.kr(Env([100,1,0].midicps,[1],[\exp,\exp]));
matter of taste but anyhow
Yes, though an exponential line segment may not touch or cross 0. The second segment there will give bad values. Oops, I was reading on a small screen and didn’t see the midicps
. With midicps
it’s fine. Never mind…
hjh