[sdiy] Additive Synthesis - phase shifts important??

[cheater cheater]

Mine sure can.
I can back that up with some resynthesis patches I made in MSP that
ilustrate this very well.
Maybe you tested on a system which had a lot of phase trash in the output? :)

Cheers
D.

On 7/14/08, Jim Patchell <patchell at cox.net> wrote:
> Your ear cannot tell what the phase relationships between various
> harmonics...however, your ear is very sensitive to a "change" in the phase
> relationship.  Being able to dynamically change the phases as a function of
> time would rate very important to me...(not sure if I am going to add that
> capability to my additive synthesis project or not...).
>
>  -Jim
>
>
>  Florian E. Teply wrote:
>
> > 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
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