[sdiy] Better waveforms of our nature

[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, David Moylan wrote:
> Not quite.  A sine wave only represents one harmonic/overtone.  So if you add
> one an octave up you're just adding that single harmonic, no other even
> harmonics.  You can build it up with multiple sines (if you have extra

I said "adding a sine wave to a traditional oscillator at twice the
frequency" and meant that the traditional oscillator would be something
like a sawtooth - so the sine wave provides the fundamental and the
sawtooth at twice the fundamental frequency provides all even harmonics.

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Matthew Skala
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