follow

Name

follow --  Envelope follower unit generator.

Description

Envelope follower unit generator.

Syntax

ar follow asig, idt

Initialization

idt -- This is the period, in seconds, that the average amplitude of asig is reported. If the frequency of asig is low then idt must be large (more than half the period of asig )

Performance

asig -- This is the signal from which to extract the envelope.

Examples

Here is an example of the follow opcode. It uses the files follow.orc, follow.sco, and beats.wav.

Example 15-1. Example of the follow opcode.

/* follow.orc */
; Initialize the global variables.
sr = 44100
kr = 4410
ksmps = 10
nchnls = 1

; Instrument #1 - play a WAV file.
instr 1
  a1 soundin "beats.wav"
  out a1
endin

; Instrument #2 - have another waveform follow the WAV file.
instr 2
  ; Follow the WAV file.
  as soundin "beats.wav"
  af follow as, 0.01

  ; Use a sine waveform.
  as oscil 4000, 440, 1
  ; Have it use the amplitude of the followed WAV file.
  a1 balance as, af

  out a1
endin
/* follow.orc */
        
/* follow.sco */
; Just generate a nice, ordinary sine wave.
f 1 0 32768 10 1

; Play Instrument #1 for two seconds.
i 1 0 2
; Play Instrument #2 for two seconds.
i 2 2 2
e
/* follow.sco */
        

To avoid zipper noise, by discontinuities produced from complex envelope tracking, a lowpass filter could be used, to smooth the estimated envelope.

Credits

Author: Paris Smaragdis
MIT, Cambridge
1995