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

[Magnus Danielson]

From: harrybissell <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Additive Synthesis - Wendy would say it works...
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:39:50 -0800
Message-ID: <42410124.1703BA18 at prodigy.net>

> Magnus Danielson wrote:  <snipp'ed>
> 
> > > It should have a parameter called "phat"    ;^)
> >
> > Yeah, that one is obvious. But then we can add "woodyness", "piercyness",
> > "stringiness" etc. etc. "funkyness" anyone?
> 
> woah YEAH baby...  I'm getting a lot of e-mails about the "woodyness" thing
> so I think I got that covered...  ;^P

Not that kind of woodyness. Try knocking your head with your mouth open
(non-speaking) and you get a better reference... (I said better, not good!).

> "piercyness"  that would be cool too. Goes with my nipple ring and all that...

No details, please!

> "stringiness" ... that might be OK but I don't know... I don't like my meat
> stringy, for instance. Still I suppose I could turn it all the way down if I
> don't like it...

Indeed. But you better keep it up at the meat when the woodyness is not all up!
(you missed it so I had to point it out)

> "Funkyness" ....  that's the stuff I need.  a white boy can never have enough
> funkyness, imho

Agree!!! This is why this parameter go all the way up to 11 in order to
compensate some. It goes to 11 man! All the others only go to 10!

> > This is what I mean, we don't lack imagination to come up with yeat another
> > way to synthesize sound. We lack imagination to come up with one that really
> > make sense!
> 
> well they make sense to me. Now how do we code them ?  I have to admit that
> (as much as people hated them) the FM instruments did a better job at
> synthesizing sound like "fender rhodes" (piano) than any analog synth would.
> So what will the additive synths bring us ?

The control-concepts I disguss does not have to be applied to additive
synthesis. I am not sure it is the best method even. My point is that the
synthesis methods themself may not be as interesting as the type of parameters
we choose to control them with, given some applied black box magic. The
concepts and controls should make sense more in a physco-acoustical sense such
that it applies better to what we feel is "wrong". If we want less snappyness
or whatever it might not be the Attack we need to only twist.

> (I admit that I have not listened to the mp3 we were vectored to, my computer
> cannot handle more than about 22khz.  I'll see if I can get it from work :^)
> 
> H^) harry  (everythings better with a bbd)

Ofcourse it is! ;O)

Cheers,
Magnus