[question] - supercollider synthesis definition not working

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I’m not sure why you are inheriting from StandingWaves. You probably don’t need to do that. You also just need to return the signal at the bottom:

TMM88 {
	*ar {
	~num = 100;
	// var num = 256; // very cpu heavy, maybe not sonically more interesting?
	// var num = 10; // really cool!
	~dur = 1/60;
	// var dur = 1/6; // more action
	~sig = ~num.collect{
		~freq = rrand(30, 5000) * SinOsc.kr(LFNoise1.kr(~dur/6).range(30, 1000), 0, LFNoise1.kr(~dur).range(0.01, 8)).midiratio;
		~sig = Select.ar(LFNoise0.kr(~dur).range(0, 2).round, [SinOsc.ar(~freq, 0, 0.1), Saw.ar(~freq, 0.1), Pulse.ar(~freq, 0, 0.1)]);
		~filtFreq = rrand(30, 1000) * LFNoise1.kr(~dur).range(1.0, 5.0);
		~filt = Select.ar(LFNoise0.kr(~dur).range(0, 2).round, [LPF.ar(~sig, ~filtFreq), HPF.ar(~sig, ~filtFreq), BPF.ar(~sig, ~filtFreq)]);
		~dly = CombL.ar(~sig, 0.5, LFNoise1.kr(~dur/6).range(0.02, 0.5), rrand(0.3, 2));
		~dly
	};
	~sig = Splay.ar(~sig); // nb! levelComp: true, so if removed signal will be extremely loud!
	~sig = FreeVerb2.ar(~sig[0], ~sig[1], LFNoise1.kr(~dur).range(0, 1.0), LFNoise1.kr(~dur * 3).range(0.2, 2));
	^~sig
	}
}

Sam

22 
MethastasickSound1 {
	*ar {
	~num = 100;
	// var num = 256; // very cpu heavy, maybe not sonically more interesting?
	// var num = 10; // really cool!
	~dur = 1/60;
	// var dur = 1/6; // more action
	~sig = ~num.collect{
		~freq = rrand(30, 5000) * SinOsc.kr(LFNoise1.kr(~dur/6).range(30, 1000), 0, LFNoise1.kr(~dur).range(0.01, 8)).midiratio;
		~sig = Select.ar(LFNoise0.kr(~dur).range(0, 2).round, [SinOsc.ar(~freq, 0, 0.1), Saw.ar(~freq, 0.1), Pulse.ar(~freq, 0, 0.1)]);
		~filtFreq = rrand(30, 1000) * LFNoise1.kr(~dur).range(1.0, 5.0);
		~filt = Select.ar(LFNoise0.kr(~dur).range(0, 2).round, [LPF.ar(~sig, ~filtFreq), HPF.ar(~sig, ~filtFreq), BPF.ar(~sig, ~filtFreq)]);
		~dly = CombL.ar(~sig, 0.5, LFNoise1.kr(~dur/6).range(0.02, 0.5), rrand(0.3, 2));
		~dly
	};
	~sig = Splay.ar(~sig); // nb! levelComp: true, so if removed signal will be extremely loud!
	~sig = FreeVerb2.ar(~sig[0], ~sig[1], LFNoise1.kr(~dur).range(0, 1.0), LFNoise1.kr(~dur * 3).range(0.2, 2));
	^~sig
	}
}

here’s how i solved it. seems to work. thank you @Sam_Pluta say hi to evan peter and joel

23

something to keep in mind. you definitely don’t want to use Environment varaibles like you are using:

~dur = 5;
{MethastasickSound1.ar}.play
~dur.postln;

~dur gets changed inside the Methastasick block box. not so good.

so, i would declare all your variables inside the *ar{} method.

Sam

24

I am not sure it makes much sense to turn the function I posted into a class, in it its ‘default’ setting you would pretty much be able to run 1 instance and then nothing else before running out of system resources. Why not just keep it a function or turn it into a SynthDef?

25

because then it becomes easier to map these things into NDefs, and Classes Hierarchically to achieve some opensoundcontrol mapping and that sort of thing