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On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 23:48 +0000, Folderol wrote:

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> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:01:03 +0000

> Gordon JC Pearce  wrote:

>

> > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 19:23 +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote:

> > > Gordon JC Pearce wrote:

> > >

> > > > When it's working, it sounds like

> > > > http://static.nekosynth.co.uk/demos/organ.ogg / organ.mp3

> > >

> > > That's decent, but still cheesy compared to beatrix. No offence :-)

> > What you've got there is a quick hack on Sean Bolton's Xsynth-DSSI, but

> > with a bunch of sine waves, and a quick hack on Steve Harris's Giant

> > Flange (oo-er) which, when combined, gives you a fairly decent tonewheel

> > simulation that sits well in a mix.

>

> The tonewheels don't actually create sinewaves. Viewed on an

> oscilloscope they are sort of slightly flattened, rather like a very

> worn cogwheel. 

I *think* - can't remember, haven't got time or inclination to check -

that when I generated the sine tables for my plugin, I fired them

through tanh() to knock the tops down a little.
Could you make a tonewheel string machine by using little circular saw

blade-shaped wheels?
Gordon