this small patch is a spin-off from my work building cheep pitchtrackers, thus asking questions about differences between periodic and aperiodic waveforms.
i would like to share it with all of you who are dying to know about max but are afraid to ask.
from a user-defined mix of noise and a sinewave, deviation between successive samples determine what is noise, while the amount of zerocrossings direct the pitch. you can control the speed of these calculations. the outcome will then be played by an oscillator, optionally with white noise.
i made a standalone version for the lacy. enclosed is the original max-patch in case somebody feel like improving. this may be opened in max/msp or max runtime.
i tried to make the interface as clear as possible, but feel free to ask if you have any questions.
actually...some presets sounds like these obnoxious patients of mine...