[sdiy] Additive Synthesis - Wendy would say it works...

[Richard Wentk]

At 03:39 22/03/2005, harrybissell wrote:

>Ahh YES. That is exactly my point. There is no set of easily operable controls
>to get to a desired end result.  You may get fantastic results... at a
>fantastically
>high price (in labor)

Sane people start with FFT analysis as a starting point. That cuts down on 
the effort slightly. :)

>Also, the engines for generating fourier or other synthesis USED to be very
>expensive.
>That may not be true anymore... but without the concept of some global "phat"
>controls
>the synth will be all but inaccessible.

No, it just take some fine tuning. Not everyone thinks synthesis should 
only have a handful of parameters.

If all else fails you can use a computer to synthesize overtone 
distributions according to various algorithmic distributions.

Richard