Kawai K3 – a rare hybrid synthesizer
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Kawai K3
User-Defined Waveform (source: Kawai K3 Owner’s Manual, page 25)
“The sound of a musical instrument […] is complex. The amazing thing is that, at any particular instant, the
waveform can be broken down and expressed as the sum of a series of sinusoidal waves whose amplitudes may
differ, but whose frequencies are all whole number multiples of a single common frequency. The common frequency
is called the “fundamental”; the others, the “harmonics”. In music, the second harmonic is one octave above the
fundamental.
