Growing up in London it was very difficult to avoid rainfall and the sound of each raindrop hitting the rough hard gravel. Rain is ultimately the definition of home to me. And naturally I was interested in how a certain coding program would interpret the numbers associated with precipitation in my hometown.
You can find my file,let it rain, and will hopefully enjoy the rainfall as much as I did when I used to live in the rainy streets of Mayfair.In my rainfall sound i decided to increase the frequency in order to make the sound more dynamic and create a sense of a busy city such as London. I got rid of the data that represented the years over which the precipitation occurs
And the rainfall continues.. in different formats (Chuck and Sound itself):
(1) Why are the values for gain squared? Because gain values are less than one, squaring the gain values could result in a smooth t transition if it's low, and more drastic transition when it's higher.
(2) Why use MIDI keynums for the freq values? By using MIDI keynums we are able to achieve more significant pitch changes. And if they are used linearly the pitch changes will be less audible to our Pitch change will be less audible to our auditory perception of frequency.
(3) What happens if the 100 ms update rate is increased or decreased significantly? Increase: Every note will likely become shorter. Decrease: update rate: Every note will likely become longer.