[sdiy] DoubleDeka (was Henry Walmsley's page)

James Elliott johans121 at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 25 23:13:23 CET 2009



>>One thing that has annoyed me about wave table oscillators is the
>>limited bandwidth. I kept wondering why the Monowave sounded
>>muffled when its filter was, according to Paul, open. And it has
>>256 points per cycle. I wonder what it's like with 16 or 10.

>Scott has the demos I have posted collected here.
>http://bridechamber.com/bridechamber.com/F_DoubleDeka.html
>The raw 10-step with arbitrary steps has a characteristic sound due to the 
>strong 5th harmonic.  With smaller and/or wider steps this character is 
>less pronounced (for example you can draw a 50/50 square wave).  The step 
>approximation to a sawtooth sounds a little different from an actual one, 
>but filter it a bit or put it in a mix and you don't notice much difference.

......regardless, it sounds completely badass. It's amazing as a mod source, @ LF or audio rates. Take OSC A into a filter and then control the cutoff with OSC B while moving OSC B's sliders. Great job Ian!


      



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