synthetic bird song

Intonorumori's icon
ehdyn's icon

There's a PD patch called "birds use stars" that might be useful to you. Probably a Max version of it too.

Just basic FM - doesn't come close to real birdsong. Interesting nonetheless.

(Coincidentally, I was just thinking of making a synthetic birdsong G2 patch this morning.)

oli larkin's icon

you should check out the plugin "oscine tract" if you're on windows:

or why not go for a whole zoo?

oli

Gary Lee Nelson's icon
DonK's icon

I came across this.

Look at the bottom for Mouette Simulator

dUX's icon

Wildlife Recordings of Desktop Birds.

Digital birds recorded right in their natural habitat, the computer. All birds were recorded by Anders Dahl. All birds sing in mono.

Peiman's icon

A friend of mine has made some impressive bird songs with SC3 just using a
pair of oscillators (one used as an envelope generator).

Best
Peiman

On 16/04/2008, Don K wrote:
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> I came across this.
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> http://vincent.choqueuse.free.fr/maxmsp.htm
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> Look at the bottom for Mouette Simulator
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> -DonK
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spectro's icon

Following in the AM/FM vein... Basically a hack of one of the MSP tute patches on FM synthesis. Not sure how convincing, but may serve as a point of departure.

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

roger.carruthers's icon

NIce! I swear there's one of these nesting near my
allotment :-)
cheers
Roger

--- Steve Adam wrote:

>
> Following in the AM/FM vein... Basically a hack of
> one of the MSP tute patches on FM synthesis. Not
> sure how convincing, but may serve as a point of
> departure.

Intonorumori's icon
DF's icon

I am utilizing these patches to control the minds of birds, my bird army will never be stopped.
Hitchcock's got nothing on this...

Choc's icon

Hi,

I've put the spectrogram of a bird on this page

A simple way to reecreate the soudn is to generate a sawtooth waveform with a decaying pitch (exponential cruve), and to apply a decaying amplitude.