On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:43:29AM -0500, chris clepper wrote: > In an analog synth the square wave has some distortion to it: the rise is > not instantaneous and there is some overshoot of the peak too. Over the > years this was minimized by using high slew rate amp circuits and the like > so an old Moog pulse wave is less ideal in shape than a new one. > > For a digital square wave you would want to use band limiting to avoid > alias artifacts which are quite severe for a square or sawtooth wave. As > the frequency goes higher both of those waves will begin to look more like > sine waves as the partials are filtered out. Pretty much every commercial > digital synth and plugin uses anti-aliased waveforms.
However when using this as a LOW frequency oscillator, I would simply ignore the literature on bandlimiting and go with a pure digital aliased wave full force! :) Ciao -- Frank Barknecht Do You RjDj.me? _ ______footils.org__ _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list