additive

[Martin Czech]

> 
> Basically a modular is made to do subtractive synthesis. I'm sure you
> _could_ do other stuff, but it would be difficult. Remember that VCO's

mmh, let put it this way, many people do only substractive synthesis,
you know, if you are used to a mini-moog likle structure...  I think
the expression "subtractive synthesis" is not very helpfull nor good.
Ok, you can read it in the books. But really, if you take a saw wave
and mix it with two bandpass filtered versions of this very saw wave,
can this be described as "subtractive"? I hear the saw wave with two
formant peaks ADDED, nothing substracted. This was a very simple patch,
nothing sophisticated.  Or take a ringmodulator, or a waveshaper, etc.
etc.  etc. This is not substractive at all. I don't know how this
expression came up in the public, but I gues it was in the mid 70's,
when polyphony led to synthis which where basically substractive, like 
a Prophet 5.


> As another somewhat relavent answer to your question, apparently the k5000
> is supposed to be able to load in a .wav directly via sounddiver, but it
> doesn't work too well. Or so I hear. 
> 
Ok, but what happens after loading the wave? Is there any chance to do 
resynthesis ? I've never heard about this, but this could be very
interesting. After a while the K5000 was really sold out, for ridicolous
prizes.

m.c.