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Hiss, Buzz, Hum: Using Noise and Complex Synthesis in JMusic

In the previous section, we created a musical instrument by connecting a sawtooth wave oscillator to a low-pass filter. We then used it to play a short musical phrase. To make richer, more interesting sounds, we will need to use a number of different audio components and combine the sounds from them. A very common way of combining sound elements is to simply add the results as if the sounds were being played simultaneously. In this first example, we create a square wave oscillator ...