[sdiy] Additive Synthesis Envelope Generation Thoughts

[Robotboy8 at aol.com]

One of the primary complaints it seems that people often have about additive 
synthesis is that it's too hard to control and that nobody wants to spend 
hours drawing envelope shapes for however many groups of partials they might have. 
 So I was thinking, what if they only had to generate one envelope?  What if 
there were just a bunch of points on a line, and at each one you adjust the 
levels of each partial or group of partials, and it interpolates between the 
values of each group at each point?  And maybe also it could be possible to skip 
putting in a level for a given group at a given point so that it would 
interpolate between the points before and after it while skipping that one?

Not much to do with modular synthesis, but I think that sometime soon I might 
try to get together some people with more programming experience than myself 
and write a bootable-floppy additive synth.  (Yeah, like that'll happen.  I 
get the fun job of designing how it works and looks and sounds and then i try to 
get someone to do the far less fun job of making the damn thing actually 
work.  Alas... back to PureData for me...)

    -eric
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