For this homework, I wanted to explore the possibility of scaling each independent frequency in a pfft instance independently, and I wanted to incorporate camera grabbing– I found our example of using the mean “difference” in camera objects to be an interesting thing to use. To do this, I created a subpatcher that takes in:

-a frequency bin

-a “width” that each randomly generated scale should not deviate from.

-a “random number generator speed” to indicate how often this recalculation should be performed.

My top level patcher looks like this:

As you can see, the “width” can be generated from the jitter objects, in addition to by with a dial. I got these from the Google Drive.

The end result of this patch was quite interesting. Its effect is most audible when humming a single pitch, and hearing it be scaled randomly. When using the patch, you may notice that certain frequencies will randomly be omitted or amplified.

Something I didn’t expect was that there wouldn’t be points where we hear pops because of the difference in scales between two points– I assumed I would need a line~ object. But we learned today in class that pfft accounts for this, so I actually didn’t need to do that.

Here is my patch for anyone interested!