Re: mixing waveforms... like for a synthesizer

The word 'mixing' means 'arithmetic addition' to audio guys and
'multiplication' to rf engineers. When you multiply two sine waves,
you get the sum and difference of the two waves (carrier freq and
modulation in rf language). If one of them has harmonics like a
sawtooth, the product is the sum and difference of all the harmonics
in each wave. Real complicated and usually sounds like dogbreath.
Unfortunate overloading of an otherwise perfectly descriptive term.
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