MSP

This demonstrates a linear interpolation formula for achieving a weighted balance of two signals.

An exponential amplitude fade is usually more subjectively natural-sounding than a linear amplitude fade. This patch allows you to compare the two.

Preloading sound into random-access memory (RAM)—as opposed to reading it off of a hard disk—allows you more easily to access any point in the sound file instantaneously, read backwards as well as forwards, access different points in the sound simultaneously, etc.

Mixing or blending two things—whether it’s two sounds or two videos—just means taking a certain amount of thing A and a certain amount of thing B and adding them together.

Similarly to the sample and hold object sah~, the snapshot~ object can be used to capture the amplitude of a signal at a specific instant.

The idea of “sample and hold” is to capture the amplitude of a signal at a particular instant in time, and hold it constant for a while. In MSP, the sah~ object allows you to do just that.

Whenever the time interval of a metro object is specified using tempo-relative time units such as note values, the operation of that metro will be governed by the transport.

In programming, it’s often useful to divide a task into parts, and consider the overall program as a combination of small tasks. Each small task can be considered a subset of the overall program, to be called upon when needed. In programming lingo, that’s often called a “subroutine” or a “function”.

When sound waves are mixed together, be it mathematically within the computer or physically in the air, they “interfere” with each other.

This example combines seven pre-recorded saxophone sounds, slowly modulating several aspects of their playback to create an ever-changing mix.