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Neat! I've been reading up and playing around with this stuff the past few weeks, from both the waveform synthesis side and the music theory side. I don't think I've quite wrapped my head around the basic concepts yet. (i.e.: Why have non-chromatic scales that skip semitones? Why do some sets of notes sound good and not others? What parts of sound quality derive from innate psychoacoustics, and what parts are my bias from growing up in the Western world?) I'll definitely be taking a closer look at saebekassebil's Javascript code, which seems to be an attempt to organize these concepts.

It's strange how once you get interested in a topic, you start seeing stuff about it everywhere. First the Clojure-based Overtone project, and now this...

parent simmons 14 years ago

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