I recorded myself playing guitar and one of my roommates whistling separately. I used speed and direction changes to make different sounds in PD. Then I used audacity to connect them together and use a few other effects. I hope you enjoy! This is my first shot ever at actually making music/cool sounds so I do plan to improve. Thank you!

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Originally I wanted to create some type of live digital audio synthesis similar to my Digital Sound Manipulation TA, Ryan Carter's project, Headless Monkey Attack; however, I did not feel comfortable to attempt such a venture once I realized how much composition knowledge a feat like that took. Next I immediately rushed back to my guitar, figuring that I could do some type of live filtering with PureData then make a song with clips that I generated from playing around. This alternative proved to me, once again, that I still am no grand composer being that this year has been my introduction to this creative world of sound. The only thing that I had left to use was my voice and my mediocre beatboxing skills that I've been working on since middle school. I recorded a few files until I found some that I liked, then layered them in Audacity so that they could complement one another. Lastly, I added an explanation with my voice, not so much for the explanation but also so I could show what could be done with simple speech.

For controls, holding the 'Z' button and rotating the nunchuck wrist clockwise changed the scale of the amplitude modulation, holding the 'C' button and changing the pitch of the nunchuck would alter the reverb, and holding 'B' while using the left and right d-pad buttons would activate and change the frequency sent to ring modulator. I used a low pass filter to remove the really annoying high frequencies that were making me sick during the project and also added a recording feature. To use the patch, simply open "voicemodPROJECT3" in PD-L2ork. Next click connect to in the patch and '1' and '2' on the Wii Remote. D-pad down activates sound and down again deactivates. I hope you can enjoy playing with my patch as much as I did!

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