Hello good people
I really like Sumu, have a great time making music and learning.
But there is something I don't understand about the space module. The partials don't seem to come back, so to speak.
When I use the default setting and just turn up "speed", just "wave" as a field and "home" for far: Why takes it very long for the partials to come back? Do they go to level zero? My thought was that they go to "wall" and then come back.
Thanks a lot for the help.
Hi,
Sorry the manual is not up to speed here. I need to get a revision out with the current features but I'm working to get a bug fix release out first.
The "wall" is a big sphere around the origin. If the outlined "room box" is two units wide, the sphere is 32 units in radius.
The big size is to give plenty of room for patches where the partials simply go away. It's also small enough you can do rhythmic things by turning up the speed a lot.
I'm not sure if the four modes are in the manual yet. This is what happens to partials when they go outside the boundary sphere:
"bye" - no change, partial keeps going away
"home" - partial location is reset to home pattern chosen
"flip" - partial goes to opposite pole of the boundary sphere
"rand" - partial goes to a random close location (within a sphere with radius 1 around the origin)
that's all! Hope that helps.
Thank you!
I'm guessing I know the answer to this, but is there any hope of this spinning out to a separate plugin like aaltoverb?
I'm guessing I know the answer to this, but is there any hope of this spinning out to a separate plugin like aaltoverb?
There's no hope of this with the space module, because it doesn't work with arbitrary audio signals—it takes audio separated into partials and spatializes all those partials independently. So whatever's going through it needs to be analyzed (with Vutu) first.
Fair enough - makes sense no, appreciate the explanation