Music Theory: Fundemental Frequencies Etc...

[kurtz]

@yourlocalloser

Ok. So lately I’ve been learning a bunch about the fundemental frequency of notes and the harmonic series.

From what I understand the fundemental frequency is the lowest frequency of a note and the rest of the sound is made up of its overtones.

For example an A which would be at 110hz may have various overtones that will always be multiples of the original frequency. And will be different depending on what instument the said note is coming from.

What my question is

Is

What kind of overtones do various waveforms like a sine and square wave have?
Or
Can somebody point me toward a rescource of where I can find lists of different insruments harmonic series?
Or!
Can somebody teach me how to look at a waveform veiwer to pick apart and figure this stuff out?
OR!
Better yet just tell me any information about this topic that you might think I would be curious to know.

Am I making any sense?

Hi, I don’t know if it will answer to all your questions but you should first have a view on this page :
http://www.zytrax.co…lator.html#note

You’ll find various math calculators for harmonic series.

Consider that this is a mathematical point of view about how sounds are produced.

However if you want to “view” / “hear” all this on renoise, it won’t be that easy.

Creating a native mono synth inside renoise that uses those kind of harmonic tables has been done with the help of a renoise user known as dBlue (he has also coded the Glitch VST, check it that’s a good one if you’re curious : http://illformed.org/plugins/glitch/

And check this thread bu dblue explaining the tips and tricks (with examples) :
http://www.renoise.c…showtopic=27225

… have fun with the native synth,
and click on the Renoise “spectrum view” to view how all this with a realtime graph.