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What do you use the oscilloscope for? I saw a video yesterday from the 60s where someone was using one and it occurred me that in 20 years of music production I
by AlecSchueler 5y ago
What do you use the oscilloscope for? I saw a video yesterday from the 60s where someone was using one and it occurred me that in 20 years of music production I've never used one myself. What am I missing?
- zdkl 5y agoVisual validation that your filters/effects are having the intended effect?
- kennywinker 5y agoWhen you’re not used to processing sound and figuring out what is happening, translating that into the more familiar visual domain can be useful. You see the sharp points on a sawtooth wave, and realize that’s why it’s buzzy. Then you close the filter and watch the sharp points get rounded out and hear the buzzyness fade. In my experience, after I got better at mentally processing sound I started to want spectrum analysis more than a scope, because my brain was able to do a lot of what the scope was doing for me earlier - but I was still missing the birds-eye view of a spectrum analyzer.