[sdiy] Additive VCO

[john mahoney]

As a point of reference for additive synthesis, the keyboard museum has a
description of Kawai's architecture.
http://www.keyboardmuseum.com/ar/k/kawai/add.html
There are a whopping 64 sines per "Wave" with a 5-stage amplitude envelope
for each partial. Custom digital chips made this possible.

You should still try some of your ideas, even if they do not fit this
description of additive synthesis, because you may find some great sounds.

Terminology note: If you are mixing complex waves (i.e. not sine waves) that
are not precisely tuned (and phase locked?) relative to each other, I don't
think it's accurate to call it additive synthesis. It's just subtractive
synthesis using multiple oscillators. But I could easily be wrong...
--
john