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Re: [AN1x] Re: AN1X Envelope shapes

2003-02-04 by Ed Edwards

> So how did I test the envelopes? Well I set up a pitch sweep (sine
> wave traversing from 11,835 hertz to 335 hertz in roughly 14 seconds.
> For the filter sweep, I obtained a resonant sine wave and then
> traversed it from a pitch of 11,811 hertz to 335 hertz in roughly 14
> seconds. (Hertz readings were obtained from a frequency analyzer.)
>
> I put the two sweeps side by side in a visual frequency analyzer, and
> try as I might I could not prove that the pitch envelope was any
> steeper within the precision of the frequency analyzer's graph. Both
> sweeps looked relatively exponential.

Ok you dang geek - what kind of a "visual frequency analyzer" do you have
access to?  A slow timebase, storage oscilloscope would be my first choice
for attempting this venture.  But I'm an electronics geek, too, even though
I'm a musician.  (:`/)

Ed Edwards
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