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Exploring Sound WITH THE ROLAND GAI
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Welcome to the exciting world of so
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Section 1 Terminology Before we beg
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TONE versus Tone Throughout this bo
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Section 3 The Basic Building Blocks
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Or more correctly as shown in Figur
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Now let’s experiment with the sof
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Lesson 2 Signal Sources - Waveforms
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would oscillate. It created an elec
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Now play an octave higher. How many
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Section 2 The Pitch Controls Once a
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Low Frequency and Audibility Now we
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OK, now look at the button marked
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Exercise Try selecting the Pulse wa
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Lesson 3 Signal Sources - Harmonics
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Sine Waves Let’s move forward, pl
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Now try switching on the second TON
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What are we subtracting? Well, we c
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You have just been able to prove th
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Harmonic Series Let’s look again
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Harmonics Charts Let’s review the
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Lesson 4 Filters This Lesson will d
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If we were to lower the bass contro
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Another very important difference b
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Please experiment with all three co
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What you are hearing, and seeing, i
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Now let’s look at the Spectrum of
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Section 4 Using Noise waveforms In
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Lesson 12 Global Review In this fin
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Section 2 Global Questions Just bef
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Section 3 TONE 1 Oscillator Let’s
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Section 5 TONE 1 Amplifier Figure 1
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Section 7 TONES 2 and 3 In reality,
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Section 9 Final Assignment Now it
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The Future However, this is not the