posted 01 April 2001 06:29            

Whilst working with sample players in kyma, I noticed that two sample
players could play from the same piece of ram at the same time. If you
take one sample player as a ref and and made sure that it was always
playing at the same pitch , then you could have the second player with a
variable pitch. If you trigger the two at the same time and keep the
pitch the same they will play the same all the way through to the end ,
but if instead you lowered the pitch of the second player it would lag
behind and the pitch would be lower. But if you were to lower the pitch
for a short time and then quickly bring it back up to the pitch of the
ref player , you get a digital delay ,i.e. the pitch is the same but it
plays fractionaly later.
If on the other hand we were to raise the pitch for a short time and
then bring it back to normal we would get a digital advance where the
pitch varied sample would play before the referance.

Now if we were to loop both these samples , the delay or advance would
continue by the same amount every time no mater how many times you went
round the loop.
Kyma has a module called a memory writer which can write to the same
piece of ram as the two players . The memory writer will by default
write to the ram at exactly the same rate as the ref sample and
therefore turn it into a real time digital delay or digital advance.

If we were to add this to the out put of a system with poor latency we
could increase or decrease it by using either delay or advance.
this is called
Advance Processing for Realtime Improved Latency.
It is important that you quickly change the pitch when you first start
up the kyma sound,
but the farther we move the pitch the faster we can bring it back for
the same amount of lag (or lead).
this is called
Fast Onset Offset Lag.

If any one has time to try out this sound I would love to know how you
get on.

Pete

posted 01 April 2001 12:41            

By he way Fake ,please give my regards to your brother , Philakanoo.

Frank what you say is true but you need to look closer at the original posting to get the fool picture.

posted 04 April 2001 15:03            

I must apologize for the oddness of this posting about the
Advance Processing for Realtime Improved Latency and the Fast Onset Offset Lag , or to give it its more common name
A.P.R.I.L F.O.O.L
But I think this is a tradition that is not common to all the contries that this forum covers.
So if any one thought we were going totaly mad they were right, but it only happens on the first of april so there is a years brake from this tom foolery.
This day has show many interesting concepts in past years like the spagetti picker in the spagetti plantation and the dehydrated water for use in the desert.
Maybe one day they will all come true and then we will all be the fools but intil then,
happy april fools day.