The Element of Surprise

[k brown]

For those that have never encountered this - you must give it a spin (if you have a system that will run it; it's a very old UGO SynthEdit creation).

It's mid-blowing how often this creates not just usable, but impressive sounds.

Any idea how something like this works; has to be more than just param randomization - the results are too good, too often.

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My guess is that it's really just a synth loaded with a whole lot of really good presets and it's just the preset selection that's randomized - if you hit the button enough times, maybe you'd start hearing the sounds repeat? Never tested it.

[tulamide]

I'm pretty sure it's another example of procedural generation, combined with carefully chosen propability ranges. I talked about this in another thread.

There are quite a few of those out there (and also midi effects and audio effects).

[deraudrl]

The thread title reminded me of the HGS Phase Shifter:
https://hgsounds.com/product/phase-shifter-vsti-2/
Some seriously unexpected things can happen with that widget if you feed it the right inputs.

[k brown]

@ tulamide - but would such a thing produce such stellar results so often, as one gets with TES?

[tulamide]

@ tulamide - but would such a thing produce such stellar results so often, as one gets with TES?

The answer is a clear
only with procedural generation plus carefully chosen propability ranges can you get every preset stunning. Pure randomness will sound horrific at least 50% of the time.

[wlangfor@uoguelph.ca]

Thanks for this post thread, it reminds Me to say that I think random presets is something that makes a synth.