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by nonrandomstring 970 days ago
Learn about synthesis. Specifically the relation between the harmonic structure of the saw and square wave and the properties of a resonant filter that can pick these harmonics out in various ways. For psytrance many of the sequences are sparse, have subtle glissando and slides, in phrygian, hungarian minor and other exotic scales with canonical forms and contrapuntal rounds often achieved by shifting subsequences a few steps forward or backward.