Sine-wave speech can be thought of as a sort of auditory illusion, a sensory edge case in which one’s experience has a clear “before” and “after” moment, like going through a one-way door. Sine-wave ...

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BERLIN, GERMANY, March 16, 2023—Forward-thinking sample library developers Orchestral Tools have just announced the third installment in their experimental Fabrik series: Sinoid. The library is built ...

Sound is something most people take for granted. Our environment is full of noises, which we have been exposed to from before birth. What is sound, how does it propagate, and how can it be quantified?

In which we embark on a quest to forge a precise triangle wave, and use that to help set a gold standard for fake sine waves. How well will we fare? A while ago, I needed (or wanted) a pocket-sized ...