Learn about sampling rate, aliasing, and the Nyquist frequency – stuff you need to know when working with digital audio – right in Ableton Live, visually.

Jerobeam Fenderson has posted a video demonstrating how to do that, all using a free Max for Live patch (so compatible with Ableton Live Suite, though even the demo version will let you load this and give it a go).

Looks like a must-have teaching tool for anyone working with Ableton Live.

Description and more resources:

– draws a sine wave and shows the points that would be sampled at a certain sampling rate (doesn’t actually change the sampling rate)
– phase shift to show that the sampled signal can differ, depending on it’s timing
– aliasing artifacts: shows a possible different interpretation of the same sample points
– just a demonstration tool, not really meant to be a synthesizer

patch: http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device/4228/nyquist-shannon
audio file: https://jerobeamfenderson.bandcamp.com/track/max-for-live-patch-nyquist-shannon-01

For technical questions please use the Oscilloscope Music subreddit, so they don’t get lost in the comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/oscilloscopemusic

website: http://oscilloscopemusic.com

You’ll also want to check out the related tutorial series on oscilloscope music, which we covered today:
Learn how to make trippy oscilloscope music with this video series

Oh, and since I posted this (and accidentally left out the video), here’s an additional one in the series with Max for Live.