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Polyver Synth made in M4L: used with Max API parameter controller for automation of phase and pitch of individual partials. The Polyver was used to make a piece in PhD (Title: "Meditation on beauty Level 4"). Also used in live set in Glasgow C@C 2015.
The Polyver is utilised in the track linked below to create textured "clouds". The synth can be utilised to create granular clouds with very fast overlapping grains (asynchronous or synchronous). It makes use of the poly~ object in max / MSP. The granular clouds were treated with FFT pitchshifting processing in SuperCollider (post-production).
Pictured: use of the "polyver" M4L app as a plugin. Note the use of the Live "device animator". This device allows the dials and number boxes of the polyver to be animated via waveforms / LFOs
The inside of the poly~ patch: note the input of a scaled frequency to the Cycle~. This allows an incoming float (between 0 and 1.0) to effect the frequency. The incoming (automated) float swings the partial's frequency up and down (10 hz either way). This allows the user to modulate the frequency of the individual partials. The phase is also subject to the same control.
The r#1 module allows arguments to be set in the poly~ on instantiation. In this case an external slider sends information about the overall amplitude of the series.
The "zl slice" box in the top left corner allows the envelope information entering through input 1 to be disengaged from the frequency information. The Envelope is set through a function box on the main GUI of the polyver. The frequency information arrives from the midi input in the Ableton Live DAW.
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