i really hv limited knowledge in pd, i got some ideas of the timbres change of the tones, but not exactly know how to do it....really need some advice...

1. i would like to do some kind of volume crossfade between the drums and the noise patch, having to say, the drums is getting louder while the volume for the noise is getting softer....actualy, ideally, i would prefer some kind of NOISE REVERB FADE OUT instead of normal volume fade out...and again...I'm not sure how to do it.....

2. i want to hv some kind of "timbre change" by using the adsr for my bass and tone patch....but it just doesn't seem hv much changes....i thought of using wavetable instead of using adsr for the "absolute" or "relative" of the timbre changes...but....how....

3. and again, for the drums....what would be the best way of trigger the timbre of a sample?? I used some kind of lop...but..arrgh...not much changes again....should i use some kind of vst or fft or how??

4. lastly, i would like to analysis the overall signal using fft, and i could control the gem by the different bins of the fft....is it possible to do that?? (the ideas is pretty similar with the visual spectrum analysis using window media player.....the colour/visual will change according to the overall frequency of amplitude of the signal)...

pls advice...

i need it get it done pretty soon in fact.........

thanks in advance...

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/PD_Timbres_Gem51.pd

1. Fading is done using multiply. To crossfade you connect two sources through [*~] objects to one
   destination and vary the multiplication factor between 0 and 1 for each.

2. To change timbre you could use a variable filter or maybe FM
   See help file 3.audio.examples->A07.frequency.mod.pd for FM

3. A good effect to change the character of drums is reverb. Try
   help file 3.audio.examples->G08.reverb.pd

This is probably not helpful at all, but you could also maybe alter the timbre by splitting the signal up and effecting it and then mixing it in with the original but softer... like you could do some kind of bitcrunchy sorta thing with Decimate for example... If you filter that you can get some interesting changes of timbre but is a bit crunchy so maybe not.

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