Norns port of Max4Live projects bitters and onebit. I wanted to try my hand at learning a little SuperCollider, and this seemed like a great excuse. I implemented a “polynomial transition region” oscillator UGen; the pulse wave is essentially due to Peter McCulloch; I did the asymmetric triangle wave. Like the original, bitters is inspired by chiptune sounds, but doesn’t attempt to emulate anything out there. The architecture is as follows: each oscillator has an FM pair to modulate it a little like Just Friends or W/Synth. The oscillators are mixed and optionally degraded before reaching the filter, which is highpass-into-lowpass like the MS-20. The polyphony code is cribbed from @infinitedigits’s mx.synths, and I added @tehn’s halfsecond softcut delay from Awake.
Requires a SuperCollider restart after first running the script: the script checks to see whether my UGens, TrianglePTR and PulsePTR are installed and installs them if not. SuperCollider needs a restart in order to find these UGens.
E1, K2 and K3 scroll pages, E2 scrolls page parameters E3 edits parameter