Simple Sound Waves

English: wavelength in sine wave
English: wavelength in sine wave (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Simple Sine Graph with description
English: Simple Sine Graph with description (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: This shows several waveforms: sine wa...
English: This shows several waveforms: sine wave, square wave, triangle wave, and rising sawtooth wave. Français : Cette image montre plusieurs formes d'onde: sinus, carrées, triangle, et dents de scie. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Ever wonder what sounds are made of? These are the building blocks of sound. Check out these informational YouTube videos on sound synthesis, sound waves, and music technology.

Online Noise Generator

Basic Sound Waves

Sine wave to Square Wave

Additive Synthesis Visual only

LOGIC STUDIO NOTES

Logic Studio's ES2 synthesizer has a Tutorial Library which has several basic settings that can be used for amazing original synth beats.

The EX24 has basic sound waves under: Synthesizers/Synth waveforms. There you will find both Analog and Digital waveforms that you can use in mixing.
Cutoff: Determines the frequencies that are allowed thru. For ex. Knob all the way to the right allows in all high frequencies.
Random: Increases randomness of pitch
Transpose: Transpose instrument
Tune: Affect tuning plus or minus
Glide: Pitch glides parameters
Fat: increases fatness of sound
Resonance: can help create sine wave, increases specific pitch set by cutoff
Drive: overdrive parameter
BP


Related articles

Enhanced by Zemanta

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Top 10 Mistakes When Writing for Percussion

Image
10. Indicating the wrong mallets for an instrument.
Brass mallets on vibes? Try a hammer on a violin!



9. Writing the glockenspiel part as heard.
You shouldn't have to climb a ladder of leger lines to read a glock part. Keep it in the staff.

8. When in doubt, adding more suspended cymbal.
This is a huge mistake made by arrangers. Yep, cymbals add automatic intensity to a piece, but so can a bass drum roll, a rousing hand drum part, exciting mallet licks, or a hundred other combinations. Well-written percussion parts stand out in the band and church repertoire.



7. Better means more complicated, right?
This is my main mistake. A percussion part can be simple enough for a middle school, but it is the ability to use the different tone colors of the percussion palette properly that indicates a maturity in writing, not that impossible part for the timpanist that has them playing timpani, gong, crash cymbals, and triangle in the span of two beats.

6. Never trust Band-in-a-Box to write the timpan…
Read more

NMR Artist Spotlight Exclusive: Greek Classical Film Composer George Kalyvas

Image
NMR Artist Spotlight Exclusive: Greek Classical Film Composer George KalyvasWhat is your story? I was born and grew up in Athens Greece and musically I started with piano lessons at the age of 9 which lasted for four years as I didn’t like the environment where I had to study just for the annual exams. I thought at the time that music was more of a discovery from inside out rather than learning how to place your fingers at the keyboard and play what you see. Of course when I grew up and at the age of 19 I understood what is the meaning of a composition and I was intrigued, as I started guitar, music theory and music harmony lessons where I obtained my first degree in music, by the story of each composition and about the mechanics of it.

I later decided to study on my own counterpoint, fugue and to start analysing scores from quartets to symphonies of the great classical composers. Now I am living in the UK and I am pursuing a career in the music industry. I already have scored 3 short f…
Read more