On Sunday 02 December 2007, david wrote: [...] > David Olofson wrote: > > >> What is thicker? > > > > Now, that is probably very subjective, but in general, it would be > > a sound with more information in it. For example, some sounds are > > improved by adding slightly detuned oscillators in large numbers. > > (Well, most sounds, if you're into "organic" or analog/acoustic > > feel sounds in general.) > > I recently discovered that the Yamaha PSR-740 has both a "Sine Wave" > voice and a "Thick Sine" voice. There is a big difference between > the two, yet you can tell that they're both using sine waves. So > that's my empirical experience of what is "thicker". I'd guess one of them is pretty close to a perfect sine whereas the other - obviously - is not. Why not record and FFT them? If you can hear a difference in timbre, the FFT spectrum should tell you why. If you can hit an FFT bin dead center, you should get a single peak with a pure sine, and various extra peaks with other waveforms. //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate .------- http://olofson.net - Games, SDL examples -------. | http://zeespace.net - 2.5D rendering engine | | http://audiality.org - Music/audio engine | | http://eel.olofson.net - Real time scripting | '-- http://www.reologica.se - Rheology instrumentation --' _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
