Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build a three-part beat using only a single raw waveform. Let’s go… Step 1: The sine wave is the raw building block of sound, of which all other ...

In this tutorial, we’ll use a variety of powerful delay plugins to turn a plain sine wave into an exciting synth tone ... Want all the hottest music and gear news, reviews, deals, features and more, ...

Tom Werner / Getty Images A sine wave is a geometric waveform that oscillates (moves up, down, or side-to-side) periodically and is defined by the function y = sin x. In other words, it is an s ...

Sine-wave speech can be thought of as a sort of auditory illusion, a sensory edge case in which one’s experience has a clear “before” and “after” moment, like going through a one-way door.

And yet, even if the sine wave is a distinctly unvarnished tool for music-making, Polachek’s compositions are also stylish in their way. Minimalism is often embraced as a utilitarian salve to ...

Listening to Surfing on Sine Waves in the context of electronic music circa 2002, I get an idea what it must have been like to listen to Buddy Holly in 1970. Naturally, there are both positive and ...