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Modulation
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Having taken a two-chapter detour into aspects of control and organization
in electronic music, we return to describing audio synthesis and processing
techniques. So far we have seen additive and wavetable-based methods. In this
chapter we will introduce three so-called <I>modulation</I> techniques:
<I>amplitude modulation</I>, <I>frequency modulation</I>, and
<I>waveshaping</I>. The term ``modulation" refers loosely to any technique
that systematically alters the shape of a waveform by bending its graph
vertically or horizontally. Modulation is widely used for building synthetic
sounds with various families of <I>spectra</I>, for which we must develop some
terminology before getting into the techniques.
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2006-12-30
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