[sdiy] Better waveforms of our nature

[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2016, Donald Tillman wrote:
> I got bored with the traditional set of audio VCO waveforms.  And
> instead of just throwing more waveforms at the situation, I looked into
> the larger issue of what we want from a waveform and the ways use them.
> And things got interesting.

It seems to me that "even harmonics" is really just all harmonics of a
note one octave higher - so except for minor differences in the shape of
the amplitude drop-off, all of these can be done easily by adding a sine
wave to a traditional oscillator at twice the frequency.  Can we think of
a different kind of waveform that breaks further from the traditional
ones?  Maybe an irregular pattern of harmonics, such as all prime-numbered
harmonics, would be interesting.

-- 
Matthew Skala
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