[music-dsp] Re: music-dsp Digest, Vol 66, Issue 17

[Vadim Zavalishin]

>time Tn = 0..w (w is for one full period of samples, gradient could be 
>longer also)
>X1 = Tn*e^j(wt+theta)
>X2 = (1-Tn)e^j(wt+rho)
>X3 = X1 + X2 <-- simple vector addition
>
>Note! This can be much improved by using a sigmoid function for the 
>amplitude gradient,
>instead of plain linear gradient (that is used with B-splines). This 
>should produce a kind of spiral on the complex plane.

That's what I did in my article. Except that a different approach is used 
for smoothing.
So in a way, it's already tried, there's also a Reaktor Core demo ensemble 
:-)

It would be interesting to compare other smoothing approaches though.

Regards,
Vadim


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