How to Generate a Sine Wave at Very Specific Frequency?

[Night Spirit]

What would the best way to generate a sine wave at very specific frequencies be in Ableton? Ive been experimenting with binaural beats (audio hypnosis stuff) and need to produce sine waves at very specific frequencies (315 hz and 325 hz for example). Using the digital sine soundform in ableton I can add resonance to a specific frequency, or use the cutoff at a specific frequency, but the sine is still is triggered by a midi note which is not the exact frequency i need. So, the best I can do here it seems is to trigger the sine with a midi note in the right ballpark and then detune it to the specific frequency. Problem is this is not very precise and I cant tell exactly what frequency i detuned to even with the spectrum analyizer. Is there a better way to generate a sine with a specific frequency in ableton? If not are there any good third party plugins with oscillators that will tune to an exact specific frequency like I need? Thanks!

[xherv]

Try 'fixed' oscillators in Operator.

[Night Spirit]

Hmmm. Dont have operator in my version of ableton.Damn. Maybe time to upgrade. Any other ideas?

[Yoseph]

I've tried this before also. Go hypnosis! Just google oscillator vsts. Or you can try to use the demo of oscillator, record the frequencies you want into another track, then play them back, making sure they start out in phase.

[rbmonosylabik]

http://mda.smartelectronix.com/

there's a plug in in there called Test Tone, give it a shot

[CalvinCorreli]

I know this is a super old thread, but I found it while searching for how to make binaural beats in Ableton.

There's plenty of ways to do it, but I wanted something even simpler and more straightforward, so I ended up writing my own Max for Live device (my first!), and sharing it.

Here's the details and the device and exactly how I made it:

http://calvincorreli.com/2017/03/01/cre ... eton-live/

Free for the taking.

[Rokananda]

Even if this whole topic is an old one I wanted to share something here;

Operator is the way to go when you have it.

Otherwise there is a simple basic sine wave tone generator shared as a max device.

After doing some tests I would like to affirm that we can type precise values on Operator;
Using fix mode oscillator. Typing a precise frequency on it with a 3 decimal precision. once you type enter the number is shown rounded but actually, internally it is kept precise, as the exact frequency you typed in, witch is a great surprise.
I made a simple test to make sure of it;
running very precise Frequencies like 101.032 as an example and 108.534 on the other oscillator of one Operator devise.
when typing enter after entering the precise values the pot says 101 and 109. But duplicating my device and retyping 101 and 109 on the oscillators and then playing them together will show some phase issues, also watching the graph you can see that actually it kept the precise numbers in memory on the first device because you can see the phase delay.


cheers