a sound snippet produced with the synth Blowfly, this time one that has plenty of grit...for some reason parts of it remind me of someone touching high tension wires together

Stocho Shortcircuit

Samples from Phase-Warper, a Vector Phase synthesizer

PhaseWarperEnsemble

Amplitude Modulation is often regarded as the 'poor cousin' of FM when it comes to generating rich timbres. But with a small modification to the AM algorithm of my synth app Phase-Warper, we get a pretty BIG and bold sound when applied to slightly detuned oscillators

Phase-Warper AM

These are example outputs of the 'Bit Twiddler Synthesizer' - an application which lets you manipulate the bits of each sample of a sinewave (like shift, re-arrange, flip bits and so on). Available here: http://flexibeatz.weebly.com The operations are:
1. If from left, third, fourth and fifth bits are 0, make from left bits two to six 1, otherwise, output original bit pattern (0 to 3.1 sec)
2. Rotate  by 2 bits to the left, while keeping first bit from left intact (3.3 to 5.3 sec)
3. Unconditionally flip the fifth bit from left (5.7 to 8.7 sec)
4. If from left, third bit is 0 and fourth bit is 1, make fourth bit 0. Else, if third bit is 1 and fourth bit is 1, make third bit 0. If neither condition is true, then output 0 bit pattern. Omit constant #PB_Byte (8.9 to 12.8 sec)
5. XOR bits with a static bit pattern (13 to 15 sec)
6. If from left, third bit is 0 and fourth bit is 1, make fourth bit 0. Else, if third bit is 1 and fourth bit is 1, make third bit 0. If neither condition is true, then output 0 bit pattern. Include constant #PB_Byte (15.2 to 20.6 sec)
7. Swap the positions in the bit pattern of, from left, bits two to three and five to six. Control limits range A. Omit constant #PB_Byte (20.6 to 23.6 sec)
8. Swap the positions in the bit pattern of, from left, bits two to three and five to six. Control limits range B. Include constant #PB_Byte (23.6 to 27.2 sec)
9. If the value of the bit pattern is positive: then if fourth and fifth bits from left are 0, make them both 1, otherwise output 0 bit pattern. If the value of bit pattern is negative: always output a 0 bit pattern (27.3 to 30.5 sec)
10. AND bits with a static bit pattern - control limits and static value setting A (30.8 to 32.6 sec)
11. AND bits with a static bit pattern - control limits and static value setting B (33 to 35 sec)
12. AND bits with a static bit pattern - control limits and static value setting C (35.4 to 37.4 sec)

BitTwiddlingSynth Medley

Quad-Klanger is a real-time monophonic synthesizer playable from a midi keyboard, featuring Bezier Curve synthesis. 'Quad' because each of the X and Y co-ordinates of the two points that warp the bezier waveform along the x and y axes, can be modulated independently. Can sound similar to FM, but still different enough to warrant inclusion in your synth arsenal. Available here: http://flexibeatz.weebly.com/quad-klanger.html

Quad-Klanger Sounds

Sounds from my free synth NeuronoiZ, which models the behaviour of a stimulated neuron (spiking, bursting and chaotic  tendencies of the membrane voltage over time)

NeuronoiZ Medley1

More sounds from my free synth NeuronoiZ, which models the behaviour of a stimulated neuron (spiking, bursting and chaotic  tendencies of the membrane voltage over time). Playable from a keyboard

NeuronoiZ Medley2

Sounds from my free synth SuperSoundShaper. Its sound engine works by converting polar shapes created by the so-called 'super-formula' to rectangular co-ordinates. 

SuperSoundShaper Medley1

Example of sounds created by 'Chaosorus'. Despite appearances, there is no 'programming of notes' or arpeggiation or midi note sliding or any other pre-set sequencing going on here. It's the result of two chaos functions which perturb the phase of a sine wave. Changing the values of the Chaosorus sliders results in a different soundset being produced by each keypress, but the soundsets are not 'random' in the sense that if you like what you hear when you press a certain key, you can repeat it by pressing the same key again. That's the difference between deterministic chaos featured by Chaosorus, and dynamic stochastic synthesis featured by Blowfly (which uses probability distributions to create each cycle of the waveform). Chaosorus is freely available from the Flexibeatz site.

Chaosorus Medley1

Example of sounds created by 'Chaosorus'. Despite appearances, there is no 'programming of notes' or arpeggiation or midi note sliding or any other pre-set sequencing going on here. It's the result of two chaos functions which perturb the phase of a sine wave. Changing the values of the Chaosorus sliders results in a different soundset being produced by each keypress, but the soundsets are not 'random' in the sense that if you like what you hear when you press a certain key, you can repeat it by pressing the same key again. That's the difference between deterministic chaos featured by Chaosorus, and dynamic stochastic synthesis featured by Blowfly (which uses probability distributions to create each cycle of the waveform). Chaosorus is freely available from my Flexibeatz site.

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