[sdiy] Additive Synthesis - phase shifts important??

[Florian E. Teply]

Hiho SDIYers,

currently i'm fiddling with the thought of some additive synthesis based 
on DDS.
Now i'm wondering if a phase shift of some harmonics would alter the sound.

When already doing the construction of harmonics by means of DDS, adding 
some additional (user controlled) phase shift wouldn't be a problem, 
it'd simply a mater of adding another set of parameters and some more 
chips ;-)

Any ideas on this?

Greetings,
Florian