Opertator Sine wave variants

remcoy · Post by **remcoy** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:31 pm

I keep searching, but I can't find a descriptions of the 5 extra sine wave variants in Operator. I feel like I came across it before, but which one is from a DX, which from SY77 etc..? What are the rest?

thanks!

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:33 pm

they're just sine waves, no need to sample from other synths

sine is a pure sine wave
then sine A adds a small amount of the first harmonic (twice the original frequency)
sine B adds a little more of the 1st and 2nd harmonics
sine C adds more of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd

etc.

fire them up with Spectrum

remcoy · Post by **remcoy** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:55 pm

On page 342 of the manual it says: "Since FM synthesis has a long tradition in hardware synthesizers, we added some variations of the pure sine wave that allow for more realistic modeling of vintage digital synthesizers."

Thats why I was wondering...

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:01 pm

I see where you're coming from. I think they're referring to having the ability to apply skills learned on older synths with Operator.

if you don't have Live 7 you can download the demo and check out the sine variations with Spectrum, it's a fun exercise. (ummm for a dork like me at least

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