Author Topic: Pulse Width Modulation for Square?  (Read 5692 times)

stelpa

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Pulse Width Modulation for Square?
« on: October 22, 2016, 04:20:22 AM »
Just a silly crazy idea, but I imagine that doing PWM on a square wave in FM-world could be neat. What do you think? Is it feasible? :)
« Last Edit: October 22, 2016, 04:23:11 AM by stelpa »

Xavier

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Re: Pulse Width Modulation for Square?
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2016, 07:48:48 PM »

Preenfm2 use only precomputed waveforms for performance reason.
So PWM would not be straightforward to add.

I'm not sure adding waveform that people usually find in "substractive synth" would make it a better FM synth.

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Re: Pulse Width Modulation for Square?
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2016, 02:56:52 AM »

Preenfm2 use only precomputed waveforms for performance reason.
So PWM would not be straightforward to add.

I'm not sure adding waveform that people usually find in "substractive synth" would make it a better FM synth.

I suppose so! Still, allowing variable waveforms could introduce quite a lot of interesting harmonic variations. But I understand it would take a huge amount of effort to implement- Thanks for taking the time to answer :)