Design your own waveform synths?

[Martin Czech]

>SNIPPED statement: sound is CHANGE of spectra

Yes, and I want to add the following:

When I was young ;-> we used to speak backwards, record it, then play
back backwards. Hell lot of fun. If you do this you will discover, that
your perception of sound is wrong, or better, what you think is wrong.
Because playback will give a wrong result.

Simple example: "I"

If you say that and play it back , you hear "eeeaaa", that is you should
speak eeeaaa in order to get an perfect "I" when played backwards.

This little example shows, that I didn't notice that the sound of "I"
really was the CHANGE of formants from aaa to eee.

Using a single wave can of course not give a change of spectrum,
thus many of those single cycle waves sound the same.

Never the less, I played again with smorphi yesterday,
the drawing option is good enough to evaluate, if a crippled saw
makes any differnce to a perfect saw. It is usefull.
And you have a realtime fourier synthesis with 16 "drawbars".
The 16 components can have sine and arbitrary shape.

m.c.