Recreating Bubble Sounds in MaxMSP
Dear Community,
I have been experimenting with recordings of bubbles in Max but realized due to recording quality that recreating bubbles might be a better option. I have already done some research and found out that apreggiators might be of help. I am curious if someone has already explored this field or might have a hint for inspiring patches, vts or tutoriala for something like that?
Thank you very much!
Two patches that generate bubbles, taken from a collection titled "Sound Design Practical Series -Nature", which I don't remember where it comes from.
Thank you Riccardo! That was exactly what I was looking for. Also, I just googled "Sound Design Practical Series -Nature" and found the two links below, in case other people are interested ;).
Hi Laura, in case you're not familiar with it, Andy Farnell's Pure Data book "Designing Sound" is fantastic and all about procedural generation of sounds like that. It's written for Pd but porting the patches to Max is pretty easy. Great book!
Oh, I see your top link is to the patches from it. I highly recommend the actual book! :-)
Hey Iain, I just did. Looks indeed fantastic! Thank you very much! :)
So I'm starting to understand that, since I'm a serial collector of max patches, somewhere, I don't remember when (some files have a creation date between 2011 and 2014), I found all the code examples that are at this link (in the practical series chapters): https://aspress.co.uk/sd/index.html ported to Max. I don't know the guy who made them, but it's a great job. If someone is interested I can share them.
There's also a bubble synthesizer in Max's Package Manager: Sound Design Toolkit
Hi Laura, if you are ok with a fair bit of math (I'm still working up to it myself, ha) another great resource along similar lines is Perry Cook's book "Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications". it's a lot more theory heavy, but really good, covering making simulations of real world sounds with various forms of synthesis.
There is also the percolate package, based on Perry Cook's models(STK), which has wuter~, a nice droplet generator, and other interesting generators.
Hey Riccardo, I just went on that page and listened to an example recording of the various bubble sounds. If you would be up for sharing the max patches that's would be really amazing ☺️!!!
Guys, this is truly fantastic, thank you so much for your hints <3. Just installed the packages ! Will start exploring everything and also start reading "Designing Sounds" by Andy Farnell. Perry Cook's book will follow ;).
Here's all that files of the practical series
Thank you Riccardo :)
Also, for something already built, check out abl.dsp.bubble~ (new in Max 9).