sine wave synthesis...

[Ingo Debus]

Mark Cornell wrote:
> He wants to know about anything to do with making
> sounds soley through the combination of sine waves
> and nothing else. I think It's called Fourier
> synthesis or something.

Yes, or Additive Synthesis.

> Anyway, anyone who knows anything about it, or
> has made something fun that uses it, please tell
> me.

I once programmed a synth in way that 16 white keyboard keys correspond
to the harmonics: the C key gives the fundamental (frequency f), the D
key the 1st harmonic (2*f), the E key the 2nd (3*f) and so on. Almost
any polyphonic synth or sampler that can produce sine waves and is
micro-tunable should be able to do that.
It was fun to play with. I programmed the envelope for slow attack and
release and maximum sustain.

Ingo