Doepfer

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, Ross Goniakowski <carfull@...> 
wrote:
>
> what exactly is the point of making more pure sine waves? i

when you do additive synthesis (and in some cases fm synthesis)
you want a wave with ideally no overtones. a pure sine wave
is exactly that, it has only the fundamental frequency and
no overtones. the more distortion in the sine wave, the
more overtones are produced.