This section deals with some more advanced topics that may be useful to start designing Rack modules. Since the range of topics to cover is incredibly wide, three selected topics have been covered that open endless exploration:

  • modal synthesis;
  • virtual analog oscillators with limited aliasing; and
  • waveshaping with reduced aliasing.

The latter two are surely very complex, especially in their mathematical details. For this reason, we will cover some theoretical background, but we will limit the complexity of the discussion, resorting to intuition as much as possible.

The modules in this section can get computationally expensive (see Figure 8.1). Each section discusses computational cost issues. ...

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