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Pitch Playground

A quick and dirty demonstrator for audio interference phenomena.

The five sine-wave oscillators can be tuned independently or linked via arbitrary or preset intervals. The amplitudes can also be independent or linked. A calculator keeps track of the ten possible beat-frequencies that are being generated by the interference between the tones.

Download Current Version:

Pitch Playground 2020-11-30

November 30, 2020, 63MB with source “patches” for Max 8.
You may need to adjust your security settings. See Installation Instructions.
Changes:

  • Re-compiled 64bit version
  • Oscilloscope should sync slightly better now
  • Updated math to avoid some DC offset problems

Old Versions:

Pitch Playground (Mac Intel/PPC)

April, 2008, 8MB with source “patches” for MAX/MSP/Jitter 4.6.
You may need to adjust your security settings and/or install Java. See Installation Instructions.

There is no Windows version (details).

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