I could think of lots of neat looking waveshapes which would be nice to have come out of an oscillator but the trouble is that they probably don't have proper names. there are some cool oscilloscope videos on youtube of waves made by the AFG which are non traditional and the Plan B Model 15 does some neat things with its Morph function but I think that the reason we don't see more of these unconventional waves on oscillators is because there are so many pieces of equipment (like bit crushers and slew generators) which can alter pre-existing waveshapes to create all sorts of timbral variety. In the end that's probably why they are the standard waves, they're easy to produce, have names which are easy to remember and describe their shape and the shapes themselves only mean they have diffrent harmonic content a morphed wave from an Model 15 might sound very much like some of the AFG waves and to the untrained ear they probably all sound a bit like animated pulse waves.
that's my take on it, That said I'd also love to see lots more variety or even just more fully featured oscillators on the market.
My rig right now doesn't even have sine waves on the oscillators grumble grumble
Chris
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Monroe Eskew
<monroe.eskew@gmail.com> wrote:
Can anyone think of other waveforms besides the standard ones that
might be interesting to have in a synth? (Standard = sine, saw,
triangle, rectangle)
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