I found this video of a home-made synthesizer. It’s the Nintendo in my blood that makes me love the sounds. But what I really love is watching the wave shapes with the oscilloscope.
The image really shows the relationship between wave shape and resulting sound. Noise has a random shape. A sine wave has just one frequency. The triangle wave has a distinct character. And you can see the larger and smaller (vertically), the louder and quieter it gets. Horizontally, the more smooshed together, tthe higher the pitch will sound, and the further spread apart, the lower the pitch will sound.
Hard Soft Synth on Oscilloscope from Gijs on Vimeo.
If anyone is wondering what I want for my birthday, I’ll take an oscilloscope. In the meantime, I should really go on a hunt for software that will emulate this. Certainly it exists. The question is how much will it cost.
A quick scan
- SignalScope at $130
- MacCRO X 0.1.3 Pre1 is free but unfinished
- Mac the Scope, not free, doesn’t clearly say how much, (PET PEEVE!)
Maybe I’ll try the MacCRO. Maybe I’ll make a disc image of my internal hard drive first. We can’t be too careful.
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I’m not going to download it here. I’m sitting at the Toronto Reference Library, connected to community wifi. So… I’ll wait till I get to Orillia.
But I am looking forward to it. (Orillia, and the new single.)
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