03 November 2014 to 14:43Comments about the feature article: A Mono/Poly Game
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In the previous articles we saw what makes up a synthesizer's basic sound chain: Oscillators, followed by filters and an amplifier, plus envelopes to control them.
We also saw that an oscillator can produce a sound wave, with more or less harmonics, but always based (as long as it's a periodic wave) on a fundamental sound, whose frequency can, in many cases, correspond to any of the notes of the western music system. But what happens when we want to play several notes at the same time, a chord, for example? Or several sounds of different natures?
We'll try to answer these two questions in the current and the following article.