Re: [fluid-dev] fluid~ crashes

[Josh Green]

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 02:56, Peter Hanappe wrote:
> Garett Shulman wrote:
> > While I'm at it... This is probably completely outside the paridigm of
> > fluidsynth, so if you are offended by the suggestion please just
> > disregard... Really, the only thing that is keeping fluidsynth from
> > completely emulating subtractive synthesis is pwm. It would be usefull
> > to have a generator that could take an offset from the start of a sample
> > and set all output of that sample to 0 after that. Or something like
> > that. But, perhaps such a beast does not belong in the main fluidsynth
> > source. Perhaps a patch would be more appropriate.
> 
> Do you think PWM is possible using the modulation envelope? You could
> control the width by changing the decay and sustain phases in runtime.
> The volume envelope can not drop to zero instantaniously but in a span
> of 64 samples.
> 
> Cheers,
> P

My impression of the abbreviation "PWM" is Pulse Width Modulation. Can
anyone clue me into what this is and how it would be used with SoundFont
synthesis? Just curious.
        Josh Green