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From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: musical square waves?
Message-ID: <1183@ihuxl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 22:27:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 21 22:27:51 1984
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Music doesn't have square waves?  Well, music produced by
*acoustic* instruments doesn't have square waves, but try
throwing the output of a Moog (*) on a 'scope sometime!
Yep, it can easily produce square waves.

Yes, it gets band-limited by the speaker (if not the amp),
but it's still *supposed* to be a square wave.

So there!

Threats: anyone claiming that Moogs cannot produce music will
be forced to listen to a cut or two from a Keith Emerson/Nice
album I have where he creates some sort of "tuned" distortion/noise
and creates "music" out of it.  Very different. Very interesting.
Surprisingly listenable.

Disclaimers: note that I haven't said anything for or against
CDs.

(*) Moog is probably a trademark or some-such.
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