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From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
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Subject: Re: Metronome tick
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Date: 19 Jan 88 19:37:45 GMT
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In article <271@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> dubois@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois) writes:
>I'm writing myself a metronome to run on my Macintosh.  Anybody
>got a suggestion for a good waveform and/or envelope that will
>(a) make a nice "tick" sound, and (b) cut through the sound of
>instruments well.
>

WWV uses (or used to use) exactly 5 cycles of a 1KHz sinusoid to produce
the 'tick' you hear.

Rich
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