Langton's Ant-as-an-Oscillator (LAaaO)

Had a weird idea today… Why not try generating audio-rate waves from something that was never built to generate audio? :stuck_out_tongue:

it’s pretty cool. As @DaveVenom will tell you, you can get a lot of aliasing when you run some things at audio rate that weren’t designed for it…

Is aliasing essentially another name for the moiré effect in the digital world?

I wonder if I put a very fast slew-limiter afterwards whether it would calm things down.

yes, probably. It’s the thing that makes wheels go backwards in film and video, too. There’s no way to get rid of it once it’s in there.

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And in many contexts, aliasing sounds cool! :smile:

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Another demo. Def some funky-scratchy sounds in there. WARNING watch the headphone levels (very variable in audio volume depending on the ant path being used to generate waves)

You can use a compressor to tame that. Mine is pretty popular:

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Yes, I should have. :cry: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Ant oscillations for drum-type sounds

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I heard that shout out! Nice patch.