Honey isn’t actually created or stored in the bee’s stomach. It is excreted through the mouth of the bee: but it is not 'vomit' since it does not empty from the bee's primary digestive stomach, but a separate, dedicated, pleated expandable pouch or crop.
"In fact, people have actually made spatial pattern generators that allow you to input the frequency profile that you want, and get the corresponding point pattern out. It’s really quite neat, and I highly recommend reading this paper so you can see some other possible noise parameters, like anisotropy."
I had to hunt this 'custom colour' noise paper out since that link was dead. It is quite neat. Here it is on ACM in case anyone else is interested:
+1 for human presence. I agree with the commenter upthread that it feels off-puttingly impersonal. Show me the faces!
Otherwise, I totally get the problem you're trying to solve so I poked it and quite liked it.
As someone with 2091 years worth of Slack convos (and Slack wanting me to upgrade to export them) can you let me know how you handle imports and exports?
The FSL is interesting because it correctly assumes the existence of parasites, ie 'harmful free-riders'.
There are ofc too many projects doing what is in effect free R&D for larger entities... these free riders having zero interest in the health or longevity of open technical ecosystems, so game theory is the right lens, I think.
I'd be very interested to learn of any other proposed structures along the lines of the FSL: particularly if anyone here has opinions on/ direct experience with them!
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Earlier incarnation/s of this approach are mentioned on the FSL page.
Good move! Do you have a link for that? Would be interested to hear it
FWIW, the Roland D50 did something similar, and used PCM samples to model the attack/transients... you could then use subtractive synthesis for the body of the sound. I would guess Pianoteq's key/striker modelling is a lot subtler!
This is a pretty solid list, props to OP for putting his observations all in one place!
I definitely agree with 2,3 that clippy hard transients are cool (clipping is in general a bit underrated as a creative synthesis tool).
From my general experience playing and designing with the 'classical' synth approaches (additive, subtractive, FM/PM) nice results are the cumulative result of many tiny hacks of the kind listed, well-judged micro-aberrations.
The spice makes the dish, that is.
This makes design and testing patches a somewhat infinite, fiddly task. Or endless fun, depending on your point of view.
Obviously, if you want to productise your thing - ie you'd like other people to use it - this you now have a control problem: bake in dozens of parameters such that 'it just works' or make them all available and let the user figure it out themselves.
Honey isn’t actually created or stored in the bee’s stomach. It is excreted through the mouth of the bee: but it is not 'vomit' since it does not empty from the bee's primary digestive stomach, but a separate, dedicated, pleated expandable pouch or crop.
Good work, bees.
https://theholyhabibee.com/honey-bee-stomach