lookup~

This patch shows the lookup tables (a.k.a. transfer functions) being used on three formal levels: 1) the microscopic level, to determine the timbre of the waveform, 2) the note level, to determine the amplitude (and timbre) envelope, and 3) at the phrase level, to control the amplitude over a 15-second time span.

First, turn on audio (below), then start the tempo object.

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.