FM Texture Generator — 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, flexible system for generating a huge range of synthetic textures using Frequency Modulation (FM) and specialized time-varying envelopes.

Quick start

Run script… → FM Texture Generator.praat.
Set parameters and click OK.
Output object appears (see Outputs).

Parameters (form fields)

Name (GUI)	Type	Default
texture_type:	choice	1
duration	positive	3.0
carrier_freq	positive	440
modulator_ratio	positive	2.0
modulation_index	positive	5.0
chaos	real	0.3
envelope:	choice	1

Outputs

Object name: FMBell
Sample rate: unknown
Normalization: Final peak scaled to 0.9