Harmonics question

[Scot Gresham Lancaster]

Those of you with Netscape 3.X and later on a Wintel 95 box (Macintosh
version is in the works.) might be interested in JavaSynth at 
http://www.softsynth.com 

This Java based modular synth includes a demos that has a hamonic wave
generator as described below, as well as a granular synthesis engine, etc.
This should be of interest to the software faction among the diy community
since it requires a working knowledge of JAVA to use and will compile your
own net accesible synthesizers...really interesting unit generator, filters,
and other signal processors.


At 05:12 PM 5/25/98 GMT, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>On Wed, 20 May 1998 10:42:31 -0400, dean stiglitz <deknow at tiac.net>
>wrote:
>
>>with a square wave, you get almost exclusively odd harmonics (fund, 3rd,
5th, 7th,
>>etc...those are harmonic #'s, not scale tones)....they are not just in
octaves,
>>more like root, 5th, 3rd, etc.
>
>I wrote a program in VB5 that has sliders for 9 sine waves (phase and
>amplitude)  The program displays graphically the waveform that would
>result from combining those 9 sine waves.  The sinewave frequencies
>are set at 1F, 2F, 3F, 4F ... 9F to comply with Fourier.
>
>It's really very cute and shows what happens in additive synthesis.
>It gets very close to a square wave when all odd waves are used at the
>correct amplitudes.
>
>-- Scott Gravenhorst
>-- FatMan Site: www.teklab.com/~chordman
>
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