About samples and harmonics...

[Sneppe Filip]

Hello list,

I've got a question that has been puzzling my mind for quite a while
now: If you transpose a sampled waveform up or down, do weird things
happen with the harmonics or not ?
In other words: Why can't you create a decent, say, violin imitation
from just one sample. Is it because the harmonics of the original
instrument (i.e. the violin) are different from octave to octave ?

Are there any good books out there that cover these kind of problems ?
I would really like to know more about Fourrier analysis etc.


Cheers

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Filip Sneppe                                sneppe at message.fucam.ac.be

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