Bird whistling generator problem I need The Glide to sound less Robotic Help!!

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Yeah i'm in the middle of creating a generator that trys to emulate birds whistling. The patch mainly consist of random objects using a range of freq. the amplitude is also random but it doesn't sound right. my problem is that i'm am struggling to get the timing natural, it sounds to robotic. I am only using 5 dsp objects as a restriction, and as im new to maxs i am struggling if some one would be able to help me with any ideas of making the amplitude and timing more natural i would be very thankfull. i can also upload the patch if that helps. cheers

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Why the restriction?

I've something here with only 5 DSP objects, but you'll need to show us your solution first . . .

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Oh the restriction is due to it being a project at uni. The solution i came up withw as not to use random object to control amplitude but instead use a long message, its solved it a little bit but not as i would have like im still at a brick wall lol my brain feels fried

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any ideas ?

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post a patch

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there it is

Whisling-74.zip
zip
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sounds no different to mine, tbh, not robotic at all

subpatchers, and send/receive, shouldn't have a space character in their names; use_underscore or camelCase likeThis

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oh kk thanks have you got any ideas about the amplitude to make it more natural and random, cause befoere it gave me loads of clicks etc

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Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

I stayed entirely in the signal domain, using the [rand~] object; if you multiply the output of [rand~] by itself, you get a cheap random curve:

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yeah that's really good actually will give it a go tomorrow and post it to ya to have a look when would the result be a cleaner and natural sound than sending a random object into the curve object( with variables)

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cause that way it gave me loads of clicks when i sped it up

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"cheap"

cheep cheep LOL