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Subject: RE: Waveform mixing

From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...
Date: 1999-11-29

> From: JWBarlow@...
>
> I thought this may in fact be useful (with one big caveat) for
> subtracting
> out harmonics in complex waves (like subtracting out a triangle from a
> sawtooth wave), BUT (the caveat) one would have to add the
> fundamental since
> that would be subtracted out entirely. I'm wondering if anyone has tried
> this, or sees it as being useful? I have tried some initial
> experiments with
> this, and have found that using (from one VCO) a SINE and
> inverted TRI (or
> SQUARE) and an in phase SQUARE (or SAW), sounds better to me than
> using the
> in phase TRI (or SQUARE). I really like the sound and wonder what others
> think.
>
> JB

I like to do this also. You can cancel part or all of certain harmonics by
varing the amount of the out-of-phase signal that you mix in. You can always
mix the sine back in (non-inverted) to restore some fundamental.

Dave