Interesting idea and article. > On Mar 3, 2026, at 4:58 PM, Mike Beauchamp <list@mikebeauchamp.com> wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > Maybe take all of the different noises, and feed them into an interpolating scanner circuit (like this one: https://till.com/articles/scanner/ ) and from there you could control the output noise colour (and anything inbetween) with the wandering CV. > > I wonder if the different noise colours all need to be derived from a single source for the crossfading to work. > > Mike > > > On 2026-03-02 18:20, Thomas Hudson via Synth-diy wrote: >> I have an analog module that can generate blue, white, pink, and red (brownian) noise. I’m interested in how I might create a random walk using perhaps a sample/hold and smoothing function to produce a sort of wandering control voltage from each of these noise sources. >> I also was recently introduced to green noise. From Wikipedia: >> * The mid-frequency component of white noise, used in halftone >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone>dithering >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dithering>^[19] >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_noise#cite_note-19> >> * Bounded Brownian noise >> * Vocal spectrum noise used for testing audio circuits^[20] >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_noise#cite_note-comp.dsp_FAQ-20> >> * Joseph S. Wisniewski writes that "green noise" is marketed by >> producers of ambient sound effects recordings as "the background >> noise of the world". It simulates the spectra of natural settings, >> without human-made noise. It is similar to pink noise, but has more >> energy in the area of 500 Hz. >> Wondering how I might generate this other than using something like a bandpass filter tuned to 500 Hz using pink noise. I want to generate it in the analog realm. >> TIA, >> Thomas >> ________________________________________________________ >> This is the Synth-diy mailing list >> Submit email to: Synth-diy@synth-diy.org >> View archive at: https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/ >> Check your settings at: https://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy >> Selling or trading? Use marketplace@synth-diy.org > ________________________________________________________ > This is the Synth-diy mailing list > Submit email to: Synth-diy@synth-diy.org > View archive at: https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/ > Check your settings at: https://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy > Selling or trading? Use marketplace@synth-diy.org
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Re: [sdiy] Various colors of noise.
2026-03-03 by Thomas Hudson
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