Oscillators, Combiners, and Amplifiers

Computational Music Synthesis

Wave Shapes

In this video Mark Doty claims that different the "non square" square waves on the Voyager sound different from standard square waves and have "character". But I think this is incorrect: I believe the Voyager's waves are just square waves with slight differences in phase.

Pulse Width Modulation

Noise

Waveshaping

Man there are no good waveshaping videos online. :-(

Waveshaping with Chebychev Polynomials

Wave Folding example

Demonstration of Aliasing

Ring Modulation

There are few good examples online of either ring or amplitude modulation in synths. :-(

Amplitude Modulation

This one shows the effect of amplitude modulation on a sine wave signal, but it's too slow a modulating signal to hear the real effects.

Hard and Soft Sync

If you got this far, I have some funny ones for you.

Mario Mathy's Casio Jumping Dance

Someone really likes his Phase Distortion synthesizers. This is a real video, of an actual popular musician in (I think?) the Netherlands, in 1980s. He dug it up recently and posted it. No, none of them are plugged in.

Nick Batt gets lost for 10 hours

Nick Batt got lost in a dark room for a bit during a tour of Superbooth, a music instrument convention in Germany. Someone made a loop of it.

Phase Distortion Animatons

These are animations corresponding to the phase distortion equations in the footnote of the Phase Distortion section of the book.

Sawtooth

Pulse

SinePulse

Square

SawPulse

MultiSine