[sdiy] Additive VCO

[elmacaco]

Actually it's 128 harmonics, you toggle between 2 sets of 64,


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "john mahoney" <jmahoney at gate.net>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Additive VCO


> 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
>


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