That video also helped me understand why square waves are square! Maths is fun.

This model is so good, at a distance even the back looks like a real gameboy albeit less yellowed and used haha

Aren’t they fun 😄 merry Christmas dude!

Mix it up and put LSD in a random day

Here’s a great video on it, explained using a piano and resonant frequencies

youtu.be/3TlQryUBz3E

Oh wait this isn’t a joke, wtf

Depending on what hardware (or emulated hardware) you use it will add different sorts of harmonics. Even harmonics of a tone, e.g. x2, x4, are much more pleasing to our ears and add warmth.

This is why tube amps can make vocals sound really really nice.

Here is an example of saturation producing overtones. If I play a pure sine wave that is 110Hz (an A) and I add a saturator then push the drive really high it introduces odd harmonics of 330HZ, 550Hz, and so on.

This is so obvious in hindsight, but Analog in Ableton doesn't produce pure a sine wave i.e. just the fundamental frequency. It replicates analogue synth circuitry and adds harmonics.

Operator, however, does produce pure tones. A useful thing to know if your intention is to learn about this stuff.