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--- In logic-ot@y..., Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@k...> wrote:
> Thoughts from the mind of yoonchinet, 15-12-2001:
> 
> >Now for some reason, which I don't understand, the
> >programmers have included some sine waves into the set of 
wavetables.
> >With wavetables I mean samples of one or two cycles. There are 9 
sine
> >waves included, starting with a basic one and the subsequent ones 
are
> >an octave, a quint above that, a quart above that one, a perfect
> >third, a dimished third, another diminished third, a second and
> >another second.
> 
> ... was the question, and the answer is:
> 
> >You can make nice organ sounds with these sines, especially when 
you
> >can combine four of these on the K4.
> 
> Think of e.g. Hammond drawbar organs, whose entire idea is to allow 
> you to add sine-waves of different frequencies.  Nice organ sounds 
> indeed :-).
> 
> I love it when people answer their own questions :-).

Ok, ok, :-). I knew I was smart enough to answer my own question, :-
). But my question was why they included these sine waves, while you 
have the possibillity to transpose and detune every wave up to +/- 2 
octaves with steps of half a note. And the answer to that was also in 
my mail. Some of the sine waves are more than 2 octaves up, compared 
to the basic one; can't reach that high with simple transposing the 
basic one.
Btw, how many sine waves does a Hammond use? Eight? Maybe I should 
search this one the web.
Thanks for your reply,
Yoonchi.