joshwcomeau / joshwcomeau/waveforms

not all "side effects " are harmonics

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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.

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