Nodal: Shape Synth

By Luis Diaz-Faes on AppTrack Ninja.

A synth that plays shapes

Nodal — A synth that plays shapes. THE SHAPE IS THE INSTRUMENT A string, a pipe, a bar, a membrane, a triangle, a circle, a plate, a box of air or a tine. Each shape vibrates in its own ways, and those ways of vibrating are the partials of the sound. There are no oscillators and no samples: there is a shape and the mathematics of how it moves. WHERE YOU TOUCH IT SETS THE TIMBRE Touching the centre does not sound like touching near the edge: each point wakes some partials and leaves others asleep. You strike it, bow it or blow it, and the clamp holds the shape at one point, like the finger tha…

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