[sdiy] Taking a Step towards - - --((FUTURE-PREDICTIONS))-- - -

[Glen]

At 06:15 AM 1/12/04 , Karl Dalen wrote:

>As a suprising thing that the academics did discover some time
>ago are that even such simple thing as a e.g elctric string bass
>would easily require as much as 3900 to 4000 partials to be
>resynthesised well. Bass notes how strange it may "sound"
>requires an a massive amount of partials! 

Have you ever tried the VSTi plugin Vertigo? It does additive synthesis
with "only" 256 partials. It sounds pretty good to me. The VSTi named
Cameleon only uses 64 partials, yet manages to produce interesting and very
useful results as well.

Those academics were either EXTREMELY picky about the fidelity of their
resynthesis, or they were implementing it the wrong way. One doesn't need
to have 3950 oscillators to produce a nice result.

later,
Glen Berry