Evolving Grain Mass — User Guide

Praat script.

Author: Shai Cohen Affiliation: Department of Music, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Version: 0.1 (2025) License: MIT License Repo: https://github.com/ShaiCohen-ops/Praat-plugin_AudioTools

Contents:

What this does Quick start Parameters Outputs

What this does

Praat script.

Process Description: This is an advanced script for Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis (DSS), which creates a continuous, evolving sonic texture from a mass of randomly placed sound grains. The script cleverly isolates three distinct methods for achieving this temporal evolution.

Quick start

Run script… → Evolving Grain Mass.praat.
Set parameters and click OK.
Output object appears (see Outputs).

Parameters (form fields)

Name (GUI)	Type	Default
Duration	real	15.0
Sampling_frequency	real	44100
Initial_density	real	20.0
Final_density	real	60.0
Base_frequency	real	120
Frequency_evolution	real	2.0
Evolution_type:	choice	1

Outputs

Object name: output
Sample rate: unknown
Normalization: No automatic normalization