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To cite this Article: Murail, Tristan , 'Spectra and pixies', Contemporary Music
Review, 1:1, 157 - 170
To link to this article: DOI: 10.1080/07494468400640141
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07494468400640141
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Electronic music has tried to imitate such sonorities, and has
usually employed two techniques to achieve this: ring modulation
(for analogue synthesis) and frequency modulation (for digital
synthesis). In both cases, the relationship between frequency and
partial n u m b e r is linear, as with the harmonic series, but the graph of
the function is a straight line which does not pass through the origin:
that is the major difference from a harmonic series. Here is the graph
of a typical frequency modulation, whose equation is: f r e q = m • i
+ c(m = modulator, c = carrier, i = index).
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