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ReBack: grain clouds, GA resynthesis, chopping, FilterBank?, and CloudBank? resysnthesis
Snailsbury Remix: Remix of a children's song by PDJ, includes morphing, vocoding, chopping, and resynthesis
ColdPlanet: granular synthesis
SampleCloud: granulating a harp loop and a vocal sample
Couscous: a mix of processed voice, chopped granular synthesis, and an electronic drum loop*

BassBits: a bass guitar loop is chopped up and rearranged by Kyma's SampleBits? module (here's the original*)
RandoMiniLoop: this module randomly changes the start and end loop points (the original was a bass drum hit*)
Deranger: vocal, drum, & saz* samples chopped to bits and rearranged in real time by the Kyma Deranger module

Multiwave: oscillator whose waveform and filter cutoff are being changed in real time
HarpAh: a MIDI keyboard-controlled additive resynthesis of a harp morphs into a voice singing 'ah'

BucketShoppe: a drum loop* filtered by a harmonic resonator that tracks the amplitude envelope of the drum
FilteredDrumChoppedVox: a drum loop filtered by an amplitude-tracking all-pass filter plus chopped rap sample*
Vocoder: live vocoder with changing noise content, input frequency, formant, and bandwidth

Morphs: woman to cat, baby to dog, dog to Harley, woman to little boy — all over a drum loop* background
HarpGuitarDog: a harp morphs into a guitar morphs into a dog bark
SingScratch: a scratch drum loop is crossed with a voice

InvertSpectrum: various frequency ranges of a harp sample are spectrally inverted (original harp is at the end)
BirdCymbal: different amplitude ranges of a drum loop* are clipped in the spectral domain (here's the original*)
ReZooma (5 MB): all sounds came from two short samples of Zooma** (chopped & spectrally transmogrified)

The next few examples are Aggregate Synthesis algorithms. In Aggregate Synthesis, complex timbres are constructed using banks of simpler elements. Most people are already familiar with one form of Aggregate Synthesis: the classic "additive synthesis" in which hundreds of sine wave oscillators are combined to create complex, evolving timbres. Symbolic Sound has extended that technique to include banks of other sound generating elements such as filters, grain clouds, and synthesized impulse responses. Aggregate Synthesis algorithms can be used to resynthesize a live or recorded spectrum or to generate purely synthetic spectra.

CloudBank: A bank of grain clouds, each cloud assigned its own amplitude and frequency envelope in addition to the usual granular synthesis controls like density, grain duration, frequency jitter, etc. The original href="http://www.symbolicsound.com/mp3/OriginalDrum.mp3">drumloop from s p e c t r a l n o i s e is processed through a real-time spectral analysis and resynthesized by a CloudBank?.
FilterBank; A bank of bandpass filters, each controlled by a center frequency and amplitude envelope with the additional parameter of bandwidth. (In this example, you hear a spectral analysis of a voice resynthesized through the FilterBank? with extreme time-stretching. The bandwidth is controlled by the VoicedUnvoiced? module).
FormantBank: A bank of synthesized impulse responses, each with its own amplitude and frequency envelope plus an additional control on the frequency of the formants, independent of the fundamental frequency control. (In this example, you hear a spectral analysis of a singing voice, resynthesized through the FormantBank?. The Formant control is being varied to create the sound of a smaller head first and then a larger head.)

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*Thanks to s p e c t r a l n o i s e and Sounds Good for some of the original samples on which these examples are based.

**Thanks to John Paul Jones for giving us permission to use samples from Zooma to make the ReZooma? example