Soft/Hardcore: Single cycle waveform tools

[a773]

sums sinewaves together at octaves apart

Looks ace. Haven’t tried your software (no max here), so not sure what is actually happening in your software, but additive synthesis, would be integer multiplies of the first partial (aka the overtone series). The partials get closer and closer, the second is (indeed) an octave, the third is an octave + fifth, the fourth is two octaves, the fifth is two octaves + major third.

If it was just a typo, sorry for the noise, if not, I suggest you try the overtones series (as above) instead of just octaves, you’ll find much more complex wave forms will appear than by just using octaves.

In any case, take this as a most friendly suggestion, and feel free to disregard all together

[Cementimental]

hmm, on Mac (Mojave) i get " “Softcore.app” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash." same with Hardcore. the "xattr -cr " in terminal doesn’t seem to help

[ess]

It’s the same thing though. If you have an A at 220Hz and then multiply that by an integer like 2, you will have 440Hz which is an A an one octave above. Additive synthesis doesn’t need to be octaves either, but for this application (squeezing something into one cycle nicely) it’s best to keep each partial to an octave.

[ess]

Does the Terminal throw an error when you try the command?

[Cementimental]

No, nothing, I press return and it just gives me a new prompt

[bunkbeds]

this is really awesome! psyched to try generating some for the digitakt

[sno]

can’t open both .dmg files i get this info

I’m on OS X 10.11.6

[sakul]

on 10.13.6
same for hardcore

this looks very cool. can’t wait to give it a try. thanks for sharing!

edit: ok, really should read that README though dropping into terminal window didn’t work here… but I did:

xattr -cr /Applications/Softcore.app
xattr -cr /Applications/Hardcore.app

[zebra]

Additive synthesis doesn’t need to be octaves either, but for this application (squeezing something into one cycle nicely) it’s best to keep each partial to an octave.

hm, the sliders appear to control the levels of first 16 harmonic partials, exactly as @a773 suggests, and calling them “octaves” is definitely confusing (to me.)

[edit] well, yes. ‘harmonics’ is a better term than ‘octaves’, because the former is true, and the latter is… not true?

anyways, good lookin apps, thanks for sharing! i like the waveshaping and bias functions. it would be fun to process the output with lowpasses for bandlimited multisampling.

[ess]

hm, the sliders appear to control the levels of first 16 harmonic partials, exactly as @a773 suggests, and calling them “octaves” is definitely confusing (to me.)

Yeah, can definitely see that - harmonics is a better term I guess. Although, I think octaves are easy to understand for someone who doesn’t have in-depth knowledge. Virtually, it’s the same thing in this case.

(Maybe it’s best to explain it properly! Everyone is happy then, haha.)

[a773]

Virtually, it’s the same thing in this case

Hmmm. Lets start on 440Hz!

Octaves are 440, 880, 1760, 3520, etc
Overtones/partials are 440, 880, 1320, 1760 etc

Call them what you want, that’s what I (and everybody I know) call it

[ess]

Hmm! Ah yeah, didn’t think of the uneven numbers. Good point
So yes - they are harmonic partials in Softcore, fundamental * n:th harmonic.

Edit: Shot myself in the foot a bit by thinking of how to describe it in the easiest way, haha.

[zebra]

uneven

don’t want to harp any more on this, but octaves are only powers of two (as you know, sorry!)

you have the fundamental, four octaves (2, 4, 8, 16), and 11 non-octaves.

just call them “harmonics”, which is common and not even technical (it’s the same term in music theory as physics &c)

anyways… think i’m gonna finally make a multisampler for supercollider, thanks for the nudge

[ess]

Yeah, I know - just my mind rested on the number 3 and made the connection. Thanks!

[sakul]

try:
xattr -cr /Applications/Softcore.app
xattr -cr /Applications/Hardcore.app

[joshhh]

Softcore / Hardcore

these look awesome, excited to try soon!

anyways… think i’m gonna finally make a multisampler for supercollider, thanks for the nudge

this sounds awesome, excited to try [when possible]!

[Starthief]

Windows Defender didn’t want me to run the installer because it’s not signed.

I can’t get the audio working at all on my machine at work. The menu gives me 10 options for drivers, none of which produce any audio when I click the speaker icon. There’s no choice anywhere for an output device though, other than the “Output 0” and “Output 1” assigned to left and right channels… whatever those are

I’m using audio over Bluetooth since my work machine has no speakers.

I’m using DirectSound with MediaMonkey, MME with Audacity, and whatever it is that WaveEdit uses, and they all let me select between specific devices or a generic choice, e.g.

But then, Chrome doesn’t even have that choice and it just works by default (probably through the Windows sound mapper)

[Cementimental]

OK embarrassingly I just didn’t read/think the instructions properly, when I drop the app paths into terminal after the "xattr -cr " it does work fine!!

[ess]

Hmm! It seems a lot of people don’t know that it will trigger the sound if you send a MIDI note or use the computer keyboard. Could that be the problem you’re having as well? The speaker icon simply enables or disables audio output.

[Cementimental]

i eventually figured out you can use the keyboard is there any way to play lower octaves?