Open jefftrevino opened 6 years ago
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Hm, is there copy in the text that you're thinking of specifically? Unless I've missed something, the discussion is exclusively about the harmonics of a few specific waveforms.
Maybe it'd be beneficial to have a note about how there are other kinds of sounds that don't follow the same rules, but I kinda already gave one (about white noise). It's not clear to me how to add clarify around this subject without introducing a new topic, and there's already so many topics introduced... I've received some feedback that it can be a little overwhelming, and so I'm trying to strike a balance between accuracy and accessibility.
That said, if there's specific copy that is misleading, please do let me know! Happy to make clarifying changes like that.
The text implies that additional frequency components in a spectrum will always be integer multiples of a fundamental. This conflates the important notion of partials -- spectral components that may or may not be integer multiples of a fundamental, as in non-harmonic spectra like bell sounds -- with the notion of harmonics, spectral components that bear an integer-multiple relationship to a fundamental frequency.