Simple Sound Waves

English: wavelength in sine wave (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Simple Sine Graph with description (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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

http://simplynoise.com/

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

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