# Shephard tone?

**URL:** <https://uzu.lurk.org/t/shephard-tone/2414>\
**Category:** TidalCycles\
**Tags:** questions\
**Created:** [11 November 2020 13:12 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/shephard-tone/2414 "2020-11-11T13:12:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![lucyjp786](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/lucyjp786/32/337_2.png) [@lucyjp786](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/lucyjp786)\
**Post date:** [11 November 2020 13:12 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/shephard-tone/2414/1 "2020-11-11T13:12:20Z")

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Hey guys, interested to hear people's approach to make shepard tones on tidal?

> **[Shepard tone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone)**
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> A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the bass pitch of the tone moving upward or downward, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that seems to continually ascend or descend in pitch, yet which ultimately gets no higher or lower.
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> Each square in Figure 1 indicates a tone, with any set of squares in vertical alignment together making one Shepard tone....

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**Author:** ![igormpc](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/igormpc/32/2963_2.png) [@igormpc](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/igormpc)\
**Post date:** [11 November 2020 14:52 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/shephard-tone/2414/2 "2020-11-11T14:52:15Z")

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see cyclo:

### cyclo

Shepard on a cycle

- `accelerate` (0)

found on:

> **[All effects and synths - TidalCycles userbase](https://tidalcycles.org/index.php/All_effects_and_synths)**