edenyard
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I haven't (yet) come across any mention of this as I've searched back through the archive. Please forgive me if I'm covering old ground again.
We're all aware, I think, that the perceived tonal quality of the ranks in a swell box changes as the shutters are opened or closed. In other words, the sound is (obviously) attenuated but also 'muffled' when the box is shut and, as the shutters are opened, the volume increases and the sound becomes increasingly unveiled.
I don't think that I detect that effect when I open and close the swell box in GO. So the point of this thread is to ask if such a feature could be incorporated into GO to improve the realism of enclosed divisions in the organ?
If it's of any interest, I know that Colin Pykett did a lot of work on this aspect of swell box imitation some years ago. I think in those days he was achieving the effect in the analogue domain by means of voltage-controlled low-pass filters.
Here's a link to some of his work:
http://www.colinpykett.org.uk/swellpedal.htm#Simulation
I know that the analogue circuitry is no longer relevant, but perhaps his findings on the required characteristics of the filtering may be.
Thanks for any input on this idea!
Cheers,
Gerald.
We're all aware, I think, that the perceived tonal quality of the ranks in a swell box changes as the shutters are opened or closed. In other words, the sound is (obviously) attenuated but also 'muffled' when the box is shut and, as the shutters are opened, the volume increases and the sound becomes increasingly unveiled.
I don't think that I detect that effect when I open and close the swell box in GO. So the point of this thread is to ask if such a feature could be incorporated into GO to improve the realism of enclosed divisions in the organ?
If it's of any interest, I know that Colin Pykett did a lot of work on this aspect of swell box imitation some years ago. I think in those days he was achieving the effect in the analogue domain by means of voltage-controlled low-pass filters.
Here's a link to some of his work:
http://www.colinpykett.org.uk/swellpedal.htm#Simulation
I know that the analogue circuitry is no longer relevant, but perhaps his findings on the required characteristics of the filtering may be.
Thanks for any input on this idea!
Cheers,
Gerald.