Pulsar Synthesis Basics - Max/MSP Tutorial

Pulsar synthesis is a lesser-known variation on granular synthesis. It uses periodic oscillations between a waveform and silence to blur the borders of rhythm and timbre. In this video I build a basic pulsar synthesiser in Max/MSP, all by manipulating a simple sawtooth wave.
🎵Patch: github.com/umutreldem/hearing...

[@yourpaljoni]

fantastic tutorial!

[@LuisTorres-qz5kr]

Thank you for detailed tutorial on Pulsar.

[@ruslanmazavin2695]

❤❤ thanks for a helpful and inspiring video)

[@synth_def]

Eyyy thanks for the shoutout @ 1:23

[@hakank3841]

İnanılmaz güzel bir dersti. Pulsar Synthesis hakkında çok güzel bir başlangıç oldu. Çok teşekkür ederim.

[@HearingGlass]

İzlediğin için ben teşekkür ederim - konu ilgini çekiyorsa Curtis Roads'ın "Composing Electronic Music" kitabı ilgini çekebilir.

[@hakank3841]

@@HearingGlass hemen inceleyeceğim.

[@loidis9347]

Thanks!

[@paakys946]

Tasty as always

[@vojkofau]

nice one

[@yng783]

hmm I tried to replicate step by step but my sine wave is not behaving as expected on the scope. I then found out it is because i gave the cycle~ a non-zero default frequency value. Interesting to know cycle~ can work without a input to the frequency inlet.

[@GolaMentat]

Stimulating!

[@highharmonics]

Thanks so much for this great tutorial. It really helped me understand the basis of Pulsar synthesis and how to develop a Max patch around it. I played around with this, experimenting with more features - then found that the GOST book has a section on Pulsar synthesis in gen~. I built a patch from that and combined some of these ideas - using a buffer, and randomness on the ratio value. Here is a performance improv using it: ua-cam.com/video/Xk0ceWXeppg/v-deo.html

[@HearingGlass]

Thank you - really liked the improv!