pic/midi programming
Dave Cramer
davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org
Fri Oct 30 19:58:13 UTC 2009
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Mel Wilson <mwilson-4YeSL8/OYKRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 03:13:24PM -0400, Mel Wilson wrote:
>>
>
> If you lose MIDI and do the sound yourself, I'd think start with 3
>>> fixed-pitch square waves for the drones and a tuned wave for the chanter,
>>> followed by the rudiments of a low-pass filter. It might fool a few people.
>>>
>>
>> The fixed pitch being two at about an A (and octave below the keynote
>> of the chanter) and the other one being an octave below that. A being
>> about 480Hz in this case, not 440.
>>
>
> Really! Just short of a tone sharp. I can change the numbers for that. A
> MIDI solution can do it too, by manipulating the Fine Tuning parameter for
> its channel.
>
> The square waves so far are almost-but-not-quite-entirely-unlike pipes.
> They will only fool people who want to be fooled, but I haven't done much
> about a high-cut filter yet. I tried to enrich the sound by detuning the
> two high drone sounds by 1/8 semitone each way, but got an ugly beat at
> about 3/second. Probably needs more subtlety, maybe an LFSR to shake up the
> detuning in a less repetitious way.
>
> The thing needs an ATmega128. The -48, -168 etc. don't have enough timer
> output compares to do it nicely.
>
Well pipers spend a whole lot of time doing exactly this, tuning their
drones ;)
Dave
>
> Mel.
>
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