>Bob Davis said, >>Finally, it's probably just a matter of time before someone clever develops >software which will give a visual graph of the frequency and amplitude of >multiple partials as they change >Bob, we had a chapter meeting, about 1985, at the New England Digital> >Corporation when it was still located in White River Junction, VT. I believe >the company has now moved to New Hamshire. At that time Robinson come up to >do a class on voicing. He worked on both the strings and >the hammers. At that time New England Digital had a computer system they >called >The Synclavier. Using their equipment was fascinating. As Chris did various >voicing techniques they were able to print out the results of his efforts. >This they could do both graphically and in spreadsheet form. > The graph, using an XYZ coordinate system was able to graph the >multiple > harmonics produced by any note and show it in elapsed time. They were able >to sample and analyze quite a few partials for differing >amounts of time. > Somewhere in my stacks I have some of the original graphs and >spreadsheets that were produced that day. If you would like to see them, I >shall try to locate them and send you some copies. > My guess is that someone else will also jump on this thread and tell us >that there is a program that already does this for home computers too. > > Our best to you and Marcia. Emily and I will look for you in Dearborn! >Ed Hilbert, RPT > ------------ Well, see, I knew someone would do this eventually - I just didn't know I was 11 years behind. I see that Newton has also replied with a Real-time Analyzer program for the PC called Spectra+, as you predicted. I will follow up on that lead, I think; no need to mess up your neatly organized files by trying to find something. Thanks for your reply! Bob Davis
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