[sdiy] Generating acyclic waveforms?

[Scott Nordlund]

> I consulted a fellow composer and he says that pretty much all western
> instruments have different tuning starting the 6th harmonic of their
> central pitch. So the harmonic series looks like this:
>
> C C G C E G (Bb) C...
>
> but the Bb is out of tune with the ieal equal temperatment tuning (and
> I assume the following C too, but not sure). I didn't get to know
> which way it's out of tune (sharp or flat), because he's busy dumping
> MIDI. Those composers, sheesh.. ;-)

That's just the 12 tone equal tempered scale, it has nothing to do with
inharmonicity or aperiodic waveforms.  The Bb isn't the only one out of 
tune either.
 		 	   		  
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