Programming Sound with Pure Data

Chapter 5Working with Waves

In the last chapter we had fun putting what we’ve covered to work with some practical effect examples. Now let’s look at a few more techniques and skills that will be useful for creating some more interesting effects in the next chapter.

When you are done with this chapter, you will

• Know how to export and import sound files

• Understand the fundamentals of how digital sound is captured and stored

• Hear geometric waves other than the sine wave

• Know some other important synthesis types

Let’s get started by learning the useful skill of being able to export a sound file from what we’re hearing in Pd.