Is it possible to accomplish a Shepard tone effect with arpeggios instead of scales?

Question

Is it possible to accomplish a Shepard tone effect with arpeggios instead of scales?

Answer 1

In all honesty you can but the best way that I personally could think of that happening is doing scale fragments arpeggios while the other instrument plays the other half of the scale fragment arpeggio at a different time so both can be arpeggiating but giving that scalier feel and also giving the tone time to breath in between arpeggios. I am also thinking of this in the context of a violin which can be done but overall it would be difficult to create an arpeggio from it considering a Shepard tone is just sine waves that trick the ear to think it keeps on getting higher and higher while one note reaches its highest note then drops an octave and then continue to go on. So short answer is maybe depending on the instruments used.