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Nord Stage EX v6.x
6. The Instruments: The Synth section
Example 1: a sawtooth wave synced by a sync oscillator. The sawtooth wave is restarted every time
the sync oscillator begins a new cycle. The resulting signal gets deep resonance in its harmonics.
In the Nord Stage, oscillator sync is possible with sawtooth, pulse, triangle and cosine waveforms,
each providing different spectral character.
FM
CATEGORY
The basic principle behind FM synthesis is to have one oscillator (the modulator) modulating the fre-
quency of another (the carrier). The carrier can in turn modulate the frequency of yet another oscilla-
tor, etc. There are several different algorithms in the FM category ranging from one up to three
oscillators (operators) modulating each other in series, with or without feedback on the first operator
in the chain.
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