Creating sound from scratch has never been one of my strong suits so I wanted to make sure that I focused on that this quarter. As I began to get usable information from my hexadecimal block address transcoding I wanted to funnel that into some sort of audio generating system that allowed for polyphonic notes and or chords to be played. In the beginning, this resulted in very simplistic output, mainly just basic MIDI notes converted through a kslider into piano-like notes. While this was a great start I really wanted to get chord output to have some more potential for harmonic and pleasant sounds. This proved more difficult and I began to look at the poly~ object to see how I could start doing more synthesis from this transcoded data. This also proved to be difficult because the poly~ object requires a preexisting patch to be used to run the data through.
I spent many hours in the poly~ help patcher trying to understand just the fundamentals of this sound synthesis in order to get some interesting output. Unfortunately, this was to no avail and I know that I need to get some instruction in this area. I also think that a more fundamental understanding of music theory and maybe even more specifically digital audio theory may be extremely useful.
In the end, I decided to mimic the components of a tutorial I found on poly~ and have created something that works but I would like to have more ownership over the sounds that are created moving forward.