Márton Menyhért

January 07, 2025 at 09:16 PM

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Lately, I was wandering about the fact that there is a vast number of possible ways to shuffle a deck of cards. To be more exact, there are exactly 52! ≈ 8 × 10^67 ways. This might make people claim t...

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Image for Soft knee and hard knee -- compression and overtones

 I was talking with a friend about how a compressor/limiter/clipper can generate overtones to a wave. How does amplitude correspond to harmonics? I decided to write a short blogpost about it.<...

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Image for Obtaining overtones in Tristan Murail's tuning system

 A friend approached me with him not completely understanding the technique of how Tristan Murail explained his approach of distorting the overtones of a certain basenote. In this blogpost I'm...

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December 27, 2022 at 11:04 AM

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Lately I was thinking about how to generate subtones and overtones using modular synths. I came up with using clock dividers and multipliers. 
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