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A demonstration of phase distortion synthesis

Phase distortion is a synthesis technique that was used in some Casio synthesizers in the 1980s. In traditional wavetable synthesis, a linear upward ramp signal is used as a phase index to read cyclically through a wavetable containing a particular waveform (a sine wave being the most common). In MSP you can do that by connecting the output of a phasor~ object, which generates a cyclic upward ramp from 0 to 1, to the right (phase offset) inlet of a 0 Hz cycle~ object (containing one cycle of a cosine waveform by default).