Csound makes it possible to multiply an instrument times a function table. Here’s the function table for the pitch modification taken from the word “honestly” spoken by Hillary Clinton. This is a GEN06 function table, which allows you to specify a cubic polynomial through three points. It starts at 1.0000, and then goes up to 1.4419355 passing through 1.2209677. A sure sign of someone being nervous is pitch shifts like these.
f 761 0 257 -6 1.0000000 3 1.0000000 3 1.0000000 4 1.2209677 7 1.4419355 7 1.4935484 8 1.5451613 9 1.6384409 8 1.7317204 6 1.7204301 5 1.7091398 8 1.6978495
7 1.6865591 12 1.6865591 12 1.6865591 20 1.5935484 20 1.5005376 6 1.5567204 5 1.6129032 9 1.5884409 9 1.5639785 15 1.5411290 15 1.5182796 17 1.5182796 16 1.5182796 12 1.5182796 13 1.5182796
Which looks like this when graphed:
I then chose a pitch and Csound changes the pitch from that to follow the function table.
Cubic polynomial of the word “honestly”
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This is fantastic work. The obviously many hours put into this turned into a very emotive piece of music – somehow you managed to capture the tragic nature of this sad piece of history.