[sdiy] FPGA based synthesizer progress report....

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 14 Oct 2008, at 19:35, Jim Patchell wrote:

> The phase relationship of two sawtooth waveforms (even when they  
> are exactly the same frequency) makes a huge difference in the  
> timbre you get.

It will. For example, if you've got two sawtooths that are identical  
in frequency and 90 degrees out of phase, the 2nd harmonic is  
cancelled, but the 4th is reinforced. Shifting the relative phase  
changes the patterns of cancellation/reinforcement. But I guess you'd  
worked that out after hearing the effect.

Good work with the MIDI interface. I've still got this stage to come  
with my project - not really looking forward to it.

T.