[Freepats] Re: An algorithm to generate perfectly looped samples

[Roberto Gordo Saez]

On 6/7/06, Paul N <zynaddsubfx at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> I am Paul Nasca, the author of a software synthesizer "ZynAddSubFX".
> I have seen information about Freepats list and I wish to post here about an
> algorithm made by me who can generate very good instruments (like this:

Hi.
A collection of ZynAddSubFX synthesized instruments would be great.
Marcos Guglielmetti appears to have good knowledge of ZynAddSubFX and
has used it before. For myself, it is still on my to-do list...

> The full documentation is here:
> http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/doc/PADsynth/PADsynth.htm

I've discovered your document some time ago. I remember that when I
was reading it, a question jumped in my brain: I usually find
difficult to make the sound I think of, so, it would be possible to
analyze the spectrum, harmonics and structure from a recorded sound
and use this information as the input for the PADsynth algorithm?

This way, the analysed data could be used as a hint to start the
synthesis. The result could be fine tuned and a perfect looped pad
with full scale can be made with only one example wav file. Well, I
have not thought very much of it, so I'm not sure if this is possible
or useful.

> Hope you'll like it :)
> Paul

I love bright ideas and algorithms. Thank you for sharing it.