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Example C01.nyquist.pd (Figure <A HREF="#fig03.13">3.13</A>, part a) shows an oscillator
playing a wavetable, sweeping through frequencies from 500 to 1423. The
wavetable consists of only the 46th partial, which therefore varies from 23000
to 65458 Hertz. At a sample rate of 44100 these two frequencies
theoretically sound at 21100
and 21358 Hertz, but sweeping from one to the other folds down through
zero and back up.
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<CAPTION ALIGN="BOTTOM"><STRONG>Figure 3.13:</STRONG>
(a) sending an oscillator over the Nyquist frequency;
(b) zipper noise from the <TT>line</TT> (control) object; (c) the
<TT>line~</TT> and <TT>vline~</TT> objects compared.</CAPTION>
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Two other waveforms are provided to show the interesting effects of beating
between partials which, although they ``should" have been far apart, find
themselves neighbors through foldover. For instance, at 1423 Hertz, the second
harmonic is 2846 Hertz whereas the 33rd harmonic sounds at 1423*33-44100 = 2859
Hertz--a rude dissonance.
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Other less extreme examples can still produce audible foldover in less striking
forms. Usually it is still objectionable and it is worth learning to
hear it. Example C02.sawtooth-foldover.pd (not pictured here) demonstrates this for a sawtooth
(the <TT>phasor~</TT> object). For wavetables holding audio recordings,
interpolation error can create extra foldover. The effects of this can
vary widely; the sound is sometimes described as
``crunchy" or ``splattering", depending on the recording, the transposition,
and the interpolation algorithm.
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