Tutorial: creating the sound of hydrogen
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So, I've had a lot of requests to find out how I made the sound of hydrogenfor the sound of hydrogen video; so this week I figured I would do a little tutorialto show how you actually create that sound.I'm gonna be using Mathematica but you can use any software that can synthesize sounds.In Mathematica the sound synthesizing command is just called playSo you can play a sine wave at, say, 440 Hz.So play from a time of 0 to, say, 3 secondsand it sounds like sine wave.[Beep Sound]Uh, we can also play, say in 880, which is an octave higher[Higher Beep Sound]And if you want you can do crazy things like, uh,playing sine of t^2.[Whoop Sound]Or even the sine of the sine of t^2[Squiggle Sound]So thats a lot of fun.But we're interested in maybe some more sli...
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So, I've had a lot of requests to find out how I made the sound of hydrogenfor the sound of hydrogen video; so this week I figured I would do a little tutorialto show how you actually create that sound.I'm gonna be using Mathematica but you can use any software that can synthesize sounds.In Mathematica the sound synthesizing command is just called playSo you can play a sine wave at, say, 440 Hz.So play from a time of 0 to, say, 3 secondsand it sounds like sine wave.[Beep Sound]Uh, we can also play, say in 880, which is an octave higher[Higher Beep Sound]And if you want you can do crazy things like, uh,playing sine of t^2.[Whoop Sound]Or even the sine of the sine of t^2[Squiggle Sound]So thats a lot of fun.But we're interested in maybe some more sli...
