mtof

Will need to download the pan~ abstraction found here.

The objects mtof and ftom provide easy conversion between MIDI pitch numbers and their equivalent equal-tempered frequency values.

When a sound is mixed with a delayed version of itself, each sinusoidal component of the delayed sound has a unique phase offset compared to the original, so each frequency is accentuated or attenuated differently. For example, if a 1000 Hz sinusoid is delayed by 1/1000 of a second (1 millisecond), the original and the delayed version will still be perfectly in phase, so that frequency will be increased in amplitude when the two versions are added together.

One of the earliest methods of digital sound synthesis was a digital version of the electronic oscillator, which was the most common sound generator in analog synthesizers. The method used was simply to read repeatedly, at the established sample rate, through a stored array of samples that represent one cycle of the desired sound wave. By changing the step size with which one increments through the stored wavetable, one can alter the number of cycles one completes per second, which will determine the perceived fundamental frequency of the resulting tone.

This patch demonstrates how to adjust the delay time of a comb filter to make the filter correspond to a desired fundamental pitch.

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.

This example shows the patch from “A subpatch suitable for use in poly~” being used as a subpatch inside the poly~ object. You will need to download the patch from that example and save it with the name "FMsynth~" in order for this example to work.