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For the waveforms I just start with sin(-x*pi) for a sine wave or abs(x)*2-1 for a triangle and go from there.. I came up with a formula a while ago where if you take any number and divide it by a decimal then divide by the number you start with and + 1 you eventually get 1.618 and I just try...

Nah this is a little different than most. It doesn't actually allow you to load samples but rather recreates a representation of the waveform by analysing an audio file. I'm guessing that's why it requires the precision. But that just a special feature of the thing. It even allows you to create...

I think I just realized... they were just doing that to make sure the sound completed entire cycles. Just realized a zero crossing has nothing to do with samples. I think I'm confusing myself with this synth... it was that the synth internally uses a certain number of samples to make up a...

So use a steep low pass at the cut off point of the sampling rate limit? Thanks for clearing that up. I totally get that the samples are different and not like for example a kick drum sample but that's not what I mean. I'm mainly referring to doing things like using 375 hertz as a root note...

Thanks for the replies guys, really helpful stuff! I think I get it now,. Its the damn term sample that gets me, why this term is used for so many things in music production is beyond me, it just creates confusion, I mean I suspected it was constant but also thought it could'a just meant that...

I can't seem to find an answer anywhere to this just by searching. I'm trying to understand samplerate more thoroughly. I know 44000 samples per second means that the highest frequency that can be recorded is 22000 hz but what is each sample? Does it mean there is a constant 44000 snippets of...

Thanks for replying but I do realize that hertz is the number of cycles and not the speed, what I really didn't grasp is how 1hz can have a wavelength of the speed of sound even if the temperature changes as I'd read that frequency changes with temperature but that seems to only apply to air...

I have been using a wavelength calculator and I think I do get the speed of sound part.. from that I figured that 1hz is always the speed of sound? I want to program reverbs to the exact properties of the note they are used on so that the reverb matches up with the wavespeed and wavelength, and...

Thanks everyone. I think I'm getting confused by assuming the same rules apply as air columns. That has cleared up a lot for me.. I do have 1 more question if that's ok. Would I still use temperature for calculating wavelength? The actual sound traveling through the room. Would the wavelength...

Hey! I'm a musician trying to learn the scientific side of music to improve my music. I find the laws of our world very interesting too and just want to learn as much as I can!

So I've been researching into this a lot lately as I want to learn just exactly what pitch is coming from my speakers but I'm getting confused. If pitch changes with temperature/speed of sound and 1hz is always the speed of sound. Then when using a midi instrument or electronical instrument...