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Well, that's what I thought at least. When I showed the patch to a friend, she said it sounded "like a muppet being tickled".

Download the patch here, or alternatively, check out this video:

Room for improvement…

As proud as I am with my first meaningful patch, though, it's not without its problems.

Firstly, it's really ugly and there's a lot of clutter that you wouldn't want to be looking at if you were using it live, so I'll have to learn how to make an interface for it. Secondly, I bet it could be done far, far more simply and efficiently. And the final problem (as far as I can see at least…) is that every time I start it up, the sound is slightly different – I think it's a phase sync issue between the two oscillators.

Oh, plus it sounds really, really bad. But it works, and above all, I learnt a lot in making it. Hopefully, by next week (and aided by the fantastic Max/MSP forum folk), it might even have a rudimentary interface.

Maybe I'll have made sense of tutorial 11, too. I'm off to dig out my old school maths textbooks…

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