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From: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: missing fundamentals
Keywords: harmonics, pitch shifters
Message-ID: <3226@osc.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 90 06:00:39 GMT
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Reply-To: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane)
Organization: Object Sciences Corp., Menlo Park, CA
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The same thing happens with pitch shifters.  If you listen to a guitar with a
note added one octave below, it often sounds like only the lower note is
playing.  You essentially lose the original note, although it does modify the
timbre.  With a two-octave shift, it sounds like two separate notes.  This can
be changed by the amount of distortion.