[sdiy] Update on my arpeggiator

[Ian Fritz]

At 03:28 PM 6/3/05, Tom Arnold wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:18:13PM -0600, Ian Fritz wrote:
> > >I still say that those should be properly called Chaotic Waveforms 
> because
> > >they
> > > dont *sound* spiral.  To be fair, you call it chaotic on the webpage. :-)
> >
> > And I still say you are wrong.  There are non-chaotic spiral waves that 
> are
> > simple analogs of circular waves.  Your definition is bizarre.  A wave is
> > defined by its mathematical, not musical or auditory, properties.
>
>So we agree to disagree.  I say that for a waveform to be called Spiral or
>Circular, it should impart that by its sound, and you go more by what it
>looks like on a scope.  I expect that you are more correct from the aspect
>of what people who care about the math behind it have called it, but I only
>care what comes out the speakers. :-)

And if you take what you call a spiral wave and increase its frequency to a 
MHz, then what comes out of the speakers?  Same wave, but no more auditory 
properties to characterize it. :-)





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