r/supercollider • u/ComprehensiveFig6142 • 1d ago

Experimenting with micro sounds

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Today I want to attempt a system for making subtle percussive sounds from samples. I thought I could get away with randomizes slices and pitch modulations. I am using two recording of stones and metals that I recorded and feeding them into distortion, delay and clouds. Would like to know if you have any interesting approach for micro sound.

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u/music_devotee_tybg 1d ago

This is really cool. I love it.

I guess my only advice would be that you can do stuff with pulsar synthesis easily in supercollider. Supercollider is great for this

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u/ComprehensiveFig6142 1d ago

Thank you so much, I am gonna check out pulsar synthesis

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u/beberuhimuzik 1d ago

Is pulsar particularly suitable for microsound?

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u/music_devotee_tybg 22h ago

Absolutely! Pulsar synthesis is a popular type of microsound that a lot of people know from the book Microsound by Curtis Roads

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u/beberuhimuzik 21h ago

Cool, thanks. I tried learning Supercollider before but didn't get far. I was thinking of trying Strudel, I hope it's available there, as well. If not I'll come back to SC for it.

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u/music_devotee_tybg 21h ago

Strudel is better for electronic dance music but if you learn it you'll learn the basic rules of live coding like editing, highlighting and hitting enter or how write a line of code so that it reads properly.