Creating Standard Periodic Waveforms
Music 171: Additive Synthesis
Viewing in the Frequency Domain
A periodic waveform corresponds to a harmonic spectrum, one where sinusoidal components are integer multiples of a fundamental frequency.
Periodic waveforms, or harmonic sounds, may be thought of as those having a pitch.
``Standard'' periodic waveforms: square, triangle and sawtooth, can be created using additive synthesis:
