vibrato

Expanding vibrato on an ascending glissando

A single phasor~ object can serve to synchronize several different modulations. In this example, the phasor~ is scaled and applied in three different ways. On the left side of the patch, the output of the phasor~ is cubed (multiplied by itself, then multiplied by itself again) so that it's a gentle curve instead of a straight line; that curve is then scaled by a factor of 1760, offset by 220, and used as the central frequency of the cycle~ object.

Play a sound file with vibrato

To impose a vibrato (a periodic fluctuation of frequency) on the playback of a sound file, you can use a low-frequency oscillator (a cycle~ object) to modulate the playback speed of the file. The right inlet of the sfplay~ object controls the playback speed with a rate factor. A value of 1 is normal speed (the default), 2.0 is double speed, 0.5 is half speed, etc. The speed can be supplied as a constant number (float) or with a continuous signal.

Vibrato

In music the term vibrato (Italian for “vibrated”) means small repetitive fluctuations of pitch and loudness in a tone. Singers and instrumentalists use vibrato intentionally to add interest and expressivity to their sound.