[sdiy] Generating acyclic waveforms?

[cheater cheater]

Dave,
I believe altering the start and end coordinates is an abstraction of
phase in phase distortion synthesis as known in the DX series synths;
I may be wrong, but I think unless you modulate with noise you will
not get an aperiodic waveform.

D.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 16:38, Dave Manley <dlmanley at sonic.net> wrote:
> Simon Brouwer wrote:
>>
>> I see two other ways:
>> - using wavetables (very long ones)
>
> I'd discounted wavetables just because they would have to be very long, but
> memory is cheap, so why not.
>
> What about Wave Terrain synthesis?  Is there an sdiy implementation
> anywhere?  Load up a 2-d matrix with a surface of choice and then read
> linear subsections. Altering the start and end coordinates over time to vary
> the output waveform.
>
> -Dave
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