Waveform 9 - Suitable for electric bass-type sounds. Waveform 8 - Suitable for keyboard-type sounds such as harpsichord or clavinet.

Waveform 7 - Generates a glassy, smooth timbre. Waveform 6 - Gives a rich, complex harmonic structure, suitable for emulating the sound of an acoustic piano. Waveform 5 - Emphasizes higher harmonics, somewhat like a sawtooth wave only slightly less bright. Triangle - Generates only a few harmonics, spaced at odd harmonic numbers, producing a flute-like sound having a slightly hollow character. Square - Contains only odd number harmonics (3rd, 5th, 7th. Sawtooth - This 'general purpose' sawtooth waveform contains all harmonics and has a bright and rich sound. Sine - The simplest possible waveform, having no harmonics (overtones), and producing a neutral, soft timbre. All other peaks represent harmonics generated by the waveform, characteristically decending in amplitude as the distance from the fundamental peak (note) increases. Therefore, each spectrogram shows that 220Hz fundamental frequency peak just to the right of the 200 Hz line. However, few people listen to square waves.īelow, each waveform's fundamental note played is A3, or A below middle C, or 220 Hz ( middle C is 261.626Hz & See Also ). This audio file and graphic have purposefully had the overshoot and ringing exaggerated for example. One result is slightly different harmonic content in which some higher frequencies are slightly enhanced. In reality, nothing seems perfectly instantaneous, and fast changes always have side-effects such as overshoot and dampened ringing (see Gibbs Phenomenon).

This audio file is as near to a 'perfect' square wave as Reason Subtractor is able to produce, and the graphic looks nearly perfect (except for the slightly slanted vertical lines which, theoretically, should be invisible and perfectly vertical indicating instantaneous change). Subtractor offers 32 basic waveforms, shown below.Ī theoretically perfect square wave alternates between two states, low and high, has pristine transition edges, and has an infinitely fast rise time, meaning the state changes instantaneously and with no other side-effects such as overshoot or ringing. It is adapted from work presented on which, as of 2014-07, has gone away and become squatted therefore, we offer a mirror that includes mp3 files of the various waveforms. This information describes the sounds and applications of the various waveforms available in Propellerhead's Reason Subtractor synthesizer.

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