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Dave_Rosenthal | 10 months ago

I was curious to see how audible square wave duty cycle would be (I figured not much) but sadly the audio examples are clearly broken on this page--choosing the same one multiple times gives totally different sounds.

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TonyTrapp|10 months ago

Changing the duty cycle of a square wave is called Pulse Width Modulation and is an extremely audible and iconic sound. If you have ever heared music any on the Commodore 64, you will familiar with its sound. PWM is also available in many professional synthesizers of the same era.

iamdan|10 months ago

Yes! My dad has an old Commodore 64 and I vaguely remember a skiing game. I think it's so cool what folks were able to accomplish musically on such limited systems at the time

iamdan|10 months ago

Thank you for calling that out, I am aware that the audio demos are a little busted right now and I'll be patching them up when I get a little time