On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Peter Plessas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:plessas@mur.at">plessas@mur.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> For a digital square wave you would want to use band limiting to avoid<br>
> alias artifacts which are quite severe for a square or sawtooth wave. As<br>
> the frequency goes higher both of those waves will begin to look more like<br>
> sine waves as the partials are filtered out. Pretty much every commercial<br>
> digital synth and plugin uses anti-aliased waveforms.<br>
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</div><br>out of interest Chris, do they use wavetables (possible of different<br>
lengths for different octaves) or internal oversampling a la Millers<br>
example in the doc patches?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>I can't really speak for any manufacturers but it probably varies based on the hardware being used. <br></div></div>