[sdiy] Interesting article on top octave generators.

[mskala at northcoastsynthesis.com]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2025, Tom Wiltshire wrote:

> For each extra harmonic sample value, you just add the phase on again,
> and then do another lookup to convert the phase to a sine wave.

This makes sense on a microcontroller where table lookups are cheap, but
if you're doing it on a larger computer, where arithmetic is cheap
compared to memory access, you may be better off looking up the phasor as
a complex number (cos + j sin) and then repeatedly multiplying that.

-- 
Matthew Skala
North Coast Synthesis Ltd.