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From: e85rw@efd.lth.se (Ricard Wolf)
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Subject: Re: White Noise???????
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Date: 20 Dec 90 08:45:18 GMT
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In article <71303@unix.cis.pitt.edu> mpmst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (metlay) writes:
>In article <12263@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> travis@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Travis Michael Banks) writes:
[ .. nice description of various noise forms .. ]
>Hope that helps. Someone else can show off their library by quoting you the
>math; on a practical level, what matters is that white noise is what you
>normally get on a synth that provides noise at all-- which is a pity, as
>pink noise is much more interesting to the ear. *sigh*

It may be more interesting to the ear, but not to the synthesiser player! :-)
Seriously though, most analog synthesisers only have lowpass filters, so
the only thing you can do with the noise is filter away the high end, and when
it comes to pink noise, there isn't a lot of high end around to start with.
I actually remember using an old PAiA Gnome for a noise source at one point,
since I could set it's (rather mediocre) bandpass filter to give a sharp,
cutting noise soumd, which could then be processed by my main synthesiser.
(Yeah, we know, Metlay, that some people have Xpanders with multiple 
multimode filters etc, but some of us have to do with a simple
Moog 24dB lowpass... :-).
-- 
Ricard Wolf

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