Csound.Catalog.Wave

Timbres

Woodwind instruments

flute :: D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> Sig

An emulation of the flute. Parameters

 flute seed vibDepth attack sustain decay brightnessLevel cps = 

• seed - a seed for the random signals/numbers. It's in (0, 1)
• vibDepth - Amount of the vibrato. It's in [-1, 1]
• attack - duration of the attack. Recommended value: 0.12 for slurred notes, 0.06 for tongued notes, 0.03 for short notes.
• sustain - duration of the sustain
• decay - duration of the decay. Recommended value: 0.1 (0.05 for short notes).
• brightnessLevel - filter cutoff factor. It's in (0, 1). The 0 is 40 Hz, the 1 s 10240 Hz
• cps - frequency of the note

bassClarinet :: D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> Sig

An emulation of the bass clarinet. Parameters

 bassClarinet seed vibDepth attack sustain decay brightnessLevel cps = 

• seed - a seed for the random signals/numbers. It's in (0, 1)
• vibDepth - Amount of the vibrato. It's in [-1, 1]
• attack - duration of the attack. Recommended value: 0.06 for tongued notes, 0.03 for short notes.
• sustain - duration of the sustain
• decay - duration of the decay. Recommended value: 0.15 (0.04 for short notes).
• brightnessLevel - filter cutoff factor. It's in (0, 1). The 0 is 40 Hz, the 1 s 10240 Hz
• cps - frequency of the note

frenchHorn :: D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> Sig

An emulation of the french horn. Parameters

 frenchHorn seed vibDepth attack sustain decay brightnessLevel cps = 

• seed - a seed for the random signals/numbers. It's in (0, 1)
• vibDepth - Amount of the vibrato. It's in [-1, 1]
• attack - duration of the attack. Recommended value: 0.06 for tongued notes (up to 0.12 for lower notes, up to G2), 0.03 for short notes.
• sustain - duration of the sustain
• decay - duration of the decay. Recommended value: 0.25 (0.04 for short notes).
• brightnessLevel - filter cutoff factor. It's in (0, 1). The 0 is 40 Hz, the 1 s 10240 Hz
• cps - frequency of the note

sheng :: D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> Sig

An emulation of the sheng. Parameters

 sheng seed vibDepth attack sustain decay brightnessLevel cps = 

• seed - a seed for the random signals/numbers. It's in (0, 1)
• vibDepth - Amount of the vibrato. It's in [-1, 1]
• attack - duration of the attack. Recommended value: 0.1, 0.03 for short notes.
• sustain - duration of the sustain
• decay - duration of the decay. Recommended value: 0.2 (0.04 for short notes).
• brightnessLevel - filter cutoff factor. It's in (0, 1). The 0 is 40 Hz, the 1 s 10240 Hz
• cps - frequency of the note

hulusi :: D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> Sig

An emulation of the hulusi. Parameters

 hulusi seed vibDepth attack sustain decay brightnessLevel cps = 

• seed - a seed for the random signals/numbers. It's in (0, 1)
• vibDepth - Amount of the vibrato. It's in [-1, 1]
• attack - duration of the attack. Recommended value: 0.03
• sustain - duration of the sustain
• decay - duration of the decay. Recommended value: 0.1 (0.04 for short notes).
• brightnessLevel - filter cutoff factor. It's in (0, 1). The 0 is 40 Hz, the 1 s 10240 Hz
• cps - frequency of the note

dizi :: D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> D -> Sig

An emulation of the dizi. Parameters

 dizi seed vibDepth attack sustain decay brightnessLevel cps = 

• seed - a seed for the random signals/numbers. It's in (0, 1)
• vibDepth - Amount of the vibrato. It's in [-1, 1]
• attack - duration of the attack. Recommended value: 0.12 for slurred notes, 0.07 for tongued notes, 0.03 for short notes.
• sustain - duration of the sustain
• decay - duration of the decay. Recommended value: 0.14 (0.04 for short notes).
• brightnessLevel - filter cutoff factor. It's in (0, 1). The 0 is 40 Hz, the 1 s 10240 Hz
• cps - frequency of the note

Michael Gogins gallery

pulseWidth :: Sig -> Sig -> Sig

 aout = pulseWidth amplitude cps

xanadu1 :: D -> SE Sig

 aout <- xanadu1 cps

xanadu2 :: D -> SE Sig

 aout <- xanadu2 cps

stringPad :: Sig -> Sig -> Sig

 stringPad amplitude cps

toneWheel :: D -> Sig

Tone wheel organ by Mikelson

 toneWheel cps

guitar :: D -> Sig

Guitar, Michael Gogins

 guitar cps

harpsichord :: D -> Sig

xing :: D -> Sig -> Sig

Xing by Andrew Horner

 xing cycleDuration cps

fmMod :: D -> Sig -> Sig

FM modulated left and right detuned chorusing, Thomas Kung

 fmMod cycleDuration cps

filteredChorus :: D -> Sig -> Sig

Filtered chorus, Michael Bergeman

 filteredChorus cycleDuration cps

plainString :: D -> Sig

Plain plucked string, Michael Gogins

 plainString cps

fmTubularBell :: Sig -> Sig

Tubular bell model, Perry Cook

 fmTubularBell cps

delayedString :: D -> Sig

Delayed plucked string, Michael Gogins

 delayedString cps

melody :: D -> Sig -> SE Sig

Melody (Chebyshev FM additive), Jon Nelson

 melody cycleDuration cps

rhodes :: Sig -> Sig

Rhodes electric piano model, Perry Cook

 rhodes cps

Amsterdam catalog instruments

tibetan :: Int -> Sig -> D -> Sig

Tibetan chant. It's a chorus of many sinusoids.

 tibetan n off cps

• n - the number of sinusoids (the best is 9)
• off - frequency step of the harmonics ~ (0.01, 0.03)
• cps - the frequency of the note

Bay at night

Instruments from the piece "Bay at night" by JL Diaz.

nightPad :: D -> Sig -> Sig

 nightPad fadeInTime cps

Vestige of time

Instruments from the piece "Vestige of time" by Matthew Mariano.

filteredSaw :: Sig -> Sig -> Sig

The saw is filtered with band pass filter. Centere frequency of the filter can vary.

 filteredSaw centerFrequency sawCps

filteredSawRising :: D -> Sig -> Sig

Filtered saw with rising envelope. Centere frequency starts at 500 Hz and then rises to 5000 by riseDur seconds.

 filteredSawRising riseDur cps

filteredSawFalling :: D -> Sig -> Sig

Filtered saw with falling envelope. Centere frequency starts at 5000 Hz and then falls down to 500 by riseDur seconds.

 filteredSawFalling riseDur cps

filteredNoise :: Sig -> Sig -> SE Sig

The white noise is filtered with band pass filter. Centere frequency of the filter can vary.

 filteredNoise centerFrequency sawCps

resonInstr :: Sig -> Sig -> Sig -> Sig -> Sig -> Sig

Signal is passed through three band-pass filters. We can alter the relative center frequencies of the filters.

 resonInstr filt1 filt2 filt3 amp cps = aout

simpleResonInstr :: D -> Sig -> Sig

 simpleResonInstr cycleLength cps

resonVibrato :: Sig -> Sig -> Sig -> Sig -> Sig -> Sig

Vibrato and resonant filter with varying center frequency.

 resonVibrato vibDepth vibRate filtCps amp cps = aout

delaySaw :: Sig -> Sig

Delayed saw wave.

femaleVowel :: Reson -> Sig -> Sig

Singing a reson's vowels (see Csound.Catalog.Reson).

amBell :: D -> Sig -> Sig

Detuned bell.

 amBell amp cps

Desrted

Instruments from the piece "Desrted" by Jen Scaturro.

simpleMarimba :: D -> Sig -> Sig

Simple marimba (by John Fitch) with percussive envelope.

 simpleMarimba noteDur cps

marimbaWave :: D -> Sig -> Sig -> Sig

Simple marimba (by John Fitch) without fixed envelope.

 marimba noteDur amp cps

phasingSynth :: Sig -> Sig -> Sig

 phasingSynth amp cps

noiz :: Sig -> SE Sig

 noiz cps

wind :: D -> (D, D) -> (D, D) -> D -> SE Sig

Sound of the wind.

 wind noteDur (bandRise, bandDecay) (freqRise, freqDecay) attackDecayRatio

• * bandRise, banDecay, freqRise, freqDecay -- (50, 1000)
• attackDecayRatio -- (0, 1)

The Heartbeat

Instruments from the piece "The Heartbeat" by Julie Friedman.

heartbeat :: Sig

Deep kick sound.

monoPluck :: D -> D -> Sig

 monoPluck xdur cps

chorusel :: D -> D -> D -> Sig -> (Sig, Sig)

 chorusel dur rise dec cps

• dur - note duration
• rise - rise time
• dec - decay time
• cps - frequency of the note

Trapped in convert

Instruments from the piece "Trapped in convert" by Richard Boulanger

ivory :: D -> D -> Sig -> D -> Sig -> Sig

 ivory xdur glisDur vibRate cpsCoeff cps

blue :: D -> D -> D -> Sig -> Sig -> SE Sig

 blue noteDuration numberOfHarmonics sweepRate lfoCps cps

• numberOfHarmonics ~ (6, 10)
• sweepRate ~ (0, 1)
• lfoCps ~ 20

black :: D -> D -> D -> Sig -> Sig -> SE Sig

Noise filtered with sweep filter.

 black noteDuration filterSweepStart filterSweepEnd bandWidth cps

• filterSweepStart, filterSweepEnd - hearing range
• bandWidth - (10, 50)

blackMarimba :: Sig -> SE Sig

Black with fixed parameters.

 blackMarimba cps

Modes

Percussive instruments defined with modal synthesis -- (see the functions modes and modesInstr). All instruments take in a frequency and produce the output signal with percussive envelope.

dahina :: Sig -> Sig

banyan :: Sig -> Sig

xylophone :: Sig -> Sig

tibetanBowl180 :: Sig -> Sig

spinelSphere :: Sig -> Sig

potLid :: Sig -> Sig

redCedarWoodPlate :: Sig -> Sig

tubularBell :: Sig -> Sig

redwoodPlate :: Sig -> Sig

douglasFirWoodPlate :: Sig -> Sig

uniformWoodenBar :: Sig -> Sig

uniformAluminumBar :: Sig -> Sig

vibraphone1 :: Sig -> Sig

vibraphone2 :: Sig -> Sig

chalandiPlates :: Sig -> Sig

tibetanBowl152 :: Sig -> Sig

tibetanBowl140 :: Sig -> Sig

wineGlass :: Sig -> Sig

smallHandbell :: Sig -> Sig

albertClockBellBelfast :: Sig -> Sig

woodBlock :: Sig -> Sig

Vowel

An emulation of the singing of the vowels with granular synthesis (fof-opcode in the Csound) It's best to use these functions with vibrato.

 vibrato 0.12 5 $ oneVowel maleA 330

vowels :: D -> [(Vowel, D)] -> Vowel -> Sig -> Sig

Sings a sequence of vowels with the given frequency.

 vowels maxDur [(vowel1, dur1), (vowel2, dur2), (vowel3, dur3), ...] lastVowel cps

• maxDur - total duration of the note
• vowel1, vowel2, ... lastVowel -- vowels
• dur1, dur2, ... - durations
• cps - frequency of the note.

loopVowels :: D -> Sig -> [(Vowel, D)] -> Sig -> Sig

Sings a loop of vowels with the given frequency.

 loopVowels maxDur xdur [(vowel1, dur1), (vowel2, dur2), (vowel3, dur3), ...] cps

• maxDur - total duration of the note
• xdur - the duration of the loop of vowels.
• vowel1, vowel2, ... -- vowels
• dur1, dur2, ... - durations
• cps - frequency of the note.

oneVowel :: D -> Vowel -> Sig -> Sig

Sings a single vowel with the given frequency.

 oneVowel maxDur vowel cps

• maxDur - total duration of the note.

data Vowel

Abstract type that represents a vowel.

Instances

Arg Vowel

Tuple Vowel

Vowels

maleA :: Vowel

maleE :: Vowel

maleIY :: Vowel

maleO :: Vowel

maleOO :: Vowel

maleU :: Vowel

maleER :: Vowel

maleUH :: Vowel

femaleA :: Vowel

femaleE :: Vowel

femaleIY :: Vowel

femaleO :: Vowel

femaleOO :: Vowel

Other instruments

okComputer :: Sig -> SE Sig

Tech sound. Random sinusoids palyed at the very fast rate.

 okComputer rate

• rate -- rate of new notes ~ (5, 20)