[sdiy] Additive Synthesis questions

[Veronica Merryfield]

Many moons ago I used 4 VCOs with sine(ish) wave shapers on the triangle output. It mostly worked and could sound nice, but was pretty weak sounding due to the lack of overtones It was terribly easy to make it sound horrid (trying to get all the VCOs to scale properly).

It would be much better in software or FPGA - synergy style.

On 2010-04-10, at 9:47 PM, Paul Perry wrote:

> Arrgghhh indeed.
> But, one thing that doesn't seem to be used is
> additive synthesis using independent oscillators for each overtone..
> Now that really WOULD give something worth listening to - heavy in hardware - but that is what VHDL is for.
> 
> It will be interesting arguing about the random frequency offsets for each overtone.
> 
> paul perry Melbourne Austraia
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