Computer Music

#03 Oscillations, pt 2

Last month, we looked at the basic functions you’d find in an oscillator: the signals they generate, how they can be manipulated and modulated and what the signal looks like.

This month we’ll go back in and look at oscillator sync. Not to be confused with, say, MIDI or clock sync, oscillator sync is a function whereby one oscillator’s waveform cycle is forced to reset to that of an incoming oscillator’s waveform. Consider that a waveform is periodic, and that the period determines the frequency. Two wave cycles with different periods won’t match up, so forcing

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