From the course: Learning Modular Synthesis

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The basic analog waveforms

The basic analog waveforms

- At the end of the last movie, we had fun tuning multiple oscillators to different musical intervals to create different sounds out of our modular synth. But the most common way to get a different sound is to use a different waveform out of the oscillator. You see, each oscillator typically has several different waveforms or wave shapes that it can produce, and each one of those has a unique set of harmonics. Different harmonics, different sound, and that's what we're after, creating different sounds. So the next few movies are going to be dedicated to familiarizing you with what different waveforms sound like. In this movie, we're going to tackle the most common classic analog oscillator waveforms, followed by sine waves in the next movie. And then we'll branch out into digital oscillators, which really open up your sonic pallet, and what sort of sounds you can get out of your synth. You see I already have my mini-keyboard connected to the control voltage input on my oscillator. I'm…

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