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5 articles for OSC-1 Oscilloscope · Music Theory
How Do You Make Lissajous Figures in a Browser?
Make Lissajous figures in BeamTracer OSC-1 with frequency ratios, phase and amplitude. Save a static SVG or ILDA frame, or record the figure with its sound.
How Does Oscilloscope Music Work? Hear the Drawing
Explore oscilloscope music in BeamTracer Scope. Hear how phase, pitch, summed tones, and square-wave offsets change an X/Y drawing, then take the artwork to Laser.
What Harmony Looks Like: Hear the Shape of Music
Hear and see musical intervals in BeamTracer Scope. Explore Lissajous curves, just and equal tuning, phase, harmonics, beats, and four-note chord projections.
Music Frequencies Explained: See Bass, Mids and Highs Live
Every band from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, where each instrument sits, and how to see bass, mids and highs on a free browser visualizer. Read EQ colors like a DJ.
Where Oscilloscope Music's Chords Come From
On an oscilloscope, drawing a shape twice is an octave. Here is where oscilloscope music harmony comes from, and why it drifts against a 12-TET piano.