Foundation of Synthesis- Oscillator Introduction

[@istudywater]

wow, very cool

[@HazeAnderson]

I have found that the purpose of an oscillator is not to "sound good" ... rather it is to "sound correctly." You see, there are only a handful of waveforms that an analog oscillator can produce (digital is a game changer so I am disregarding it for the moment), namely square, sine, triangle and sawtooth. Therefore ... the primary function of an oscillator is to produce the waveform requested with the most correct shape possible, as close to the requested frequency as possible, and with proper output impedance so as to not lose power when injected into other components such as AMPLIFIERS and FILTERS -- it is their job to make the oscillator's wave form "sound good." (In the digital domain we can emulate the same architecture that is used in analog synths but we don't have to, therefor an "oscillator" can spit out any arbitrary waveform of the author's imagination, with the caveat that it might just sound like noise.)

[@MadelnMachines]

Does the video series xplain the science of the oscillator?

[@anaglog77]

What is the instrument displayed at 0:18?

[@Xectopus]

How come you never spoke of Elisha gray?

[@michaelmoog1]

A W E S O M E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@noahaguilar8180]

THE GIANTS