[sdiy] Building a Better Bass Patch

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Harry Bissell Jr wrote:

> OTOH a real bass guitar would have only
> "one" string so thats like one oscillator
> anyway.

Wrong. The string has slightly different tension in horizontal and 
vertical direction so the vibrations have slightly different frequencies 
and you do indeed get phasing.

> pitch extractors. It really does look very much like
> the real thing.

Unfortunately the eye is not as sensitive to small amplitudes as the ear 
is, so simple because a waveform looks similar to another does not mean 
they sound the same (just try 50% vs 48% pulse wave on a digital synth).

Antti

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