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From: alves@alcor.usc.edu (William Alves)
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Subject: Re: Phase "distortion" synthesis
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In article <2010@aber-cs.UUCP> cho@uk.ac.aber.cs (Chris Orgill) writes:
>Can anyone point to a mathematical definition of the term 'phase
>distortion' as implemented by Casio in their VZ-1 synthesizer ? Is
>this topic covered in the Moore book ?
>
What Casio calls phase distortion synthesis is also called non-linear
distortion or waveshaping. (Companies always have to invent new names
for things to make it seem like they invented it.) I don't have the
Moore book handy, but it is covered in Dodge and Jerse _Computer_Music_
(1985) and more in depth in an article by Marc LeBrun "Digital Wave-
shaping Synthesis" in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
#27 (1979).

Bill Alves