AW: additive

Haible Juergen Juergen.Haible at nbgm.siemens.de
Thu Aug 13 12:20:38 CEST 1998


	>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.

You're absolutely right. And even the Minimoog can do more than
sustractive: Audio Rate Filter FM.
My Prophet *can* do substractive synthesis, too, but often
I concentrate on things like audio rate PWM (*very* nice on the P5 !)
I guess this is the reason why I keep the Prophet.

	JH.



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