[PD] help making a square wave?

[Thomas Grill]

I think the easiest (but not mathematically exact) way is to
[osc~] ->[*~ 10000000]-> [clip~]

best greetings,
T

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Merrill" <dmerrill at media.mit.edu>
To: <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 6:39 PM
Subject: [PD] help making a square wave?


> Hi there -
>
> I've been trying to make a square wave, but my pd knowledge is a little
> rusty.  I know of osc~ and phasor~ for a cosine and sawtooth wave,
> respectively, but I haven't been able to find a square-wave generator.  I
> think I ought to be able to use an osc, and just output 1 when the output
> is positive, and -1 when it's negative, but I've become hung on the
> details.  Is the following a good overview of what needs to be done?
>
> osc~ -> snapshot~ -> moses 0 -> b (one for each moses output) -> -1.0 or
> 1.0 -> sig~
>
> It seems like using snapshot to turn every sample into a number so that
> moses can divide them around 0 is inefficient.  Is there an object that
> deals with signals that can do what moses does?  (Or just a better way to
> get a variable-frequency square-wave in general?)
>
> much appreciated,
> David Merrill
> dmerrill at media.mit.edu
>
>
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