Fw: [PD] can one osc~ read several partials?

[Nicolas Lhommet]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michal Seta" <mis at music.mcgill.ca>
To: <nlhommet at netcourrier.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 6:21 AM
Subject: Re: [PD] can one osc~ read several partials?


> On 8/11/01 12:47 PM, "nlhommet at netcourrier.com" <nlhommet at netcourrier.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Another question: Michal, in your samples the triangle and square are
between
> > 0 and 1. To use them as sound oscillators (like osc~), i think it would
be
> > better to get a signal between -1 and 1, ie for a triangle waveform,
something
> > like 0  1  0 -1  0 . Am i right ?
>
>
> Hehe.  You're right...
>
> I've never even looked at the square (never used it) and the triangle is
> mainly useful for "windowing" stuff...  This raises an interesting point,
> though... Can you actually hear the difference?  Can anyone?  I've never
> made such an experiment but it could be interesting to find out.
>
> You could generate the tables programmatically, I guess...
> Anyone got something like that ready?
>
> /MiS
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