[sdiy] jitter in oscillators for music purposes

Czech Martin Martin.Czech at Micronas.com
Mon Jul 19 10:42:41 CEST 2004


Yes, interesting. In order to not mix up effects of the
time discrete computation with the phase and comparator
noise modulation some computational overkill can be 
accepted.

Later on, it's time to save.

m.c.

> As far as a simple approximation, how about adding noise 
> directly to the
> phase increment value? This will give you phase modulation, 
> as well as a
> small amount of amplitude modulation (due to the fact that 
> the current phase
> + phase increment + noise may wrap around, whereas current 
> phase + phase
> increment would not).
> 
> I am interested to hear about the perceptual effects of the precise
> simulation of jitter in the oscillator. However, once the 
> perceptual effects
> have been worked out, it seems like it would make sense to 
> try approximating
> the effects with a simpler noise function, in order to be 
> able to use the
> results in a real-time analog synth emulator.
> 



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