[sdiy] Generating acyclic waveforms?

[Simon Brouwer]

Dave Manley schreef:
> Ian Fritz wrote:
>> [...] if you add together
>>
>> Sin ((w+eps)t) + Sin (2wt)
>>
>> You do not get a steady repeating waveform.
> I'm probably missing the big picture here because I haven't been paying
> attention since these long-winded discussions often devolve into a
> lesson in logic and pointless point-counterpoint style argument, or
> perhaps the thread has veered off topic as they are want to do, or
> perhaps I'm on a waffle rotating around your pancake, but isn't the
> whole point of the OP to not generate a steady repeating waveform, at
> least not on a cycle-to-cycle basis?  I assume the reason to try to
> create an acyclic waveform is to remove the sterile nature of a integer
> related harmonic structure, and produce a sound with, hopefully,
> interesting timbre and "movement".
>
> It's not apparent to me how this can be done except through additive
> synthesis.

I see two other ways:
- using wavetables (very long ones)
- feeding a cyclic waveform through a barberpole phaser of some kind

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Simon Brouwer
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