My understanding is that the waveforms in the Wiard waveform oscillator are
designed like this. They're not all intended to be just sound sources, but
modifiers and other things as well.
--PBr
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> From:Tkacs, Ken [SMTP:ken.tkacs@...]
> Sent:Wednesday, December 06, 2000 11:19 AM
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> Subject:[motm] Graphic Oscillator
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>
> Ensoniq attempted to create some interesting waveforms for their ESQ
> machines. On their own, they are of limited use, but they were digitally
> designed to compliment the basic waveforms. These were then saved into the
> wavetables. They didn't have names like "row of houses" because they
> didn't
> look like anything simple. (Simple waveforms, like tri, sine, square, etc.
> are 'easily' made with analog anyway). Instead they were just called
> something like "Digital #2 with emphasized 9th and 10th partials."
>