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This patch shows a simple way to control the balance between two sounds, and also illustrates the relationship between a) mixing two sounds to one location and b) panning one sound to two locations.

This shows an implementation of phase distortion synthesis in MSP—using the phasor~, kink~, and cycle~ objects—in a patch that is designed to be used inside the poly~ object. For an explanation of this sort of phase distortion synthesis, see “A demonstration of phase distortion synthesis.” The main point of this example, though, is to show how a synthesis patch can be designed to respond directly to MIDI input.

For linear interpolation of a MSP signal, the line~ object sends out a signal that progress to some new value over a certain amount of time interpolating sample-by-sample along the way. The input to line~ is a pair of numbers representing a destination value (where it should eventually arrive) and a transition time (how long it should take to get there). It can receive multiple pairs of numbers in a single message, and it will use the pairs in order, starting each new pair when the previous transition has finished.