{"id":109,"date":"2008-05-11T15:25:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T22:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2008-05-19T22:40:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T05:40:49","slug":"hydrogen-spectra-vsti-preliminary-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/11\/hydrogen-spectra-vsti-preliminary-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; Hydrogen Spectra VSTi (preliminary idea) &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my personal project in my computational physics class, I have decided to create a new VST instrument based on the atomic spectra of the hydrogen atom.  Hydrogen is the most fundamental physical element in the universe (not including photons &#8211; whatever they are).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2008_05_11_a.jpg\" alt=\"... the Triangulum Galaxy - a large region of ionized hydrogen ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I plan on including the Lymann, Balmer, Paschen, Brackett and Pfund series of spectral lines.  The user will be able to switch each line on\/off in any combination.  This will amount to over twenty tones.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2008_05_11_b.gif\" alt=\"... the most common spectral lines of hydrogen ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The VST <em>might<\/em> be oscillator based and contain a certain amount of built in instability or granularity in the pitch to account for the slope up and down on each side of the spectral line.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2008_05_11_c.jpg\" alt=\"... the lines are not perfectly thin (Balmer series) ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It will not be a &#8220;keyboard style synth&#8221;.  It will be an ambient sound-maker that may have tempo synch elements in it.  <\/p>\n<p>I am writing a program in Python to translate the wavelength of each spectral line into the neighborhood of the western twelve tone scale (27.50 &#8211; 4186.01 Hz). Using linear pitch space, the notes will be dropped into our chromatic scale according to the equation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>p = 69 + 12 * log2(f \/ 440) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my personal project in my computational physics class, I have decided to create a new VST instrument based on the atomic spectra of the hydrogen atom. Hydrogen is the most fundamental physical element in the universe (not including photons &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/11\/hydrogen-spectra-vsti-preliminary-idea\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230; Hydrogen Spectra VSTi (preliminary idea) &#8230;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-vst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}