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Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] Square wave

From: Tim Siefkes <timsks@visi.com>
Date: 2005-12-02

Okay.. to Max and ohesh (in Germany),

I have sampled the square wave output from my CS80 into a pair of .WAVfiles, sampled at 192,000 khz 32-bit resolution.

The first file is a ten-second recording of the lowest "C" at the 16'setting, the lowest ordinary note you can play on the CS.
The second file is about a five-second sample made after sweeping thepitch down on the ribbon controller to where it sounds like discreteclicks.
Filters were wide open, no modulation or outside effects were used.

Looking at these in my waveform display they do not look much like asquare wave at all! I'm attaching a small screenshot of the waveform Isee. Hopefully it will come through to the group. Do you want me toe-mail these files to you directly? These .WAV files weigh in at 7.5 MBand 4.5 MB respectively. I also combined them into a Zip archive whichis about 8.8 MB for the two of them together. I don't want to overwhelmanyone's mailbox with large attachments. The other alternative is Icould post them to an FTP location where they could be grabbed at yourown leisure. Please let me know how I can best get these files to you.

-Tim S.
<Minneapolis>

Max Fazio wrote:
Thank you so much ! Correctly myfriend Laurie wrote me that the audio result of the pure wave could beheavily affected by the actual settings of the filters' trimmers intoeach M-board.I'm aware of it and I will do my experience having thefinal results on a statistical shape.
I recently analysed the sine waveinto the ring modulator and ended up with some correct datas ( or atleast as less approximated as I could ).
Well, the sine wave I can hear intothe modulation wave ( and in the PWM , SubOsc and within Chorus LFOs)isn't a plain sine: it consists of a "wrong" sine wave with a singleharmonic tuned 2oct upper and with 4% of the total amplitude, I wasable to reproduce it digitally with a common FFT generator : thisimplies the fact that , within ringmodulation there is something like a"hidden" sine which modulates the signal togheter with the fundamentalat two octaves upper....that's why its sound is SO rich!!
Thx again for your help!
Max