[sdiy] For you FM synthesis fans

[Ben Lincoln]

There was a Sound Diver module for the K5000 (produced by Kawaii, IIRC)
that would allow for most of that sort of thing. It would also do a
Fourier transform on a WAV file and attempt to recreate it using the
K5000's synthesis model.

It was still pretty time-consuming to build sounds from scratch :\. Having
it as a touch interface on the actual synth hardware might help make some
of that less of an issue. My memories of that were a big influence when I
was playing around with using other statistical functions to combine sine
waves a few years ago - I got much more interesting results from a lot
fewer manual decisions.

My memory is pretty fuzzy about this, but when I was studying electronic
music in the late 90s, I seem to remember learning that analogue additive
synthesizers were always a bit obscure because not only did they have the
"adjusting a whole bunch of individual sine waves is tedious" problem, but
keeping them in tune was a nightmare. I imagine some sort of DCO design
would be necessary.

On Mon, November 17, 2014 12:36 am, Roman Sowa wrote:
> We are able, and alwas have been, but who would want to use it? Kawai
> K5000 wasn't that succesfull IIRC.
> Now if you had a touch display to draw a spectrum, and then use some
> kind of 3-4 parameters to bend the spectrum in time like you can bend a
> picture in graphic programs, that would be cool.
> I can't imagine anyone setting 60 knobs for one static sound.
>
> Roman
>
> W dniu 2014-11-17 00:25, David G Dixon pisze:
>> Wow!  That's a fantastic machine!!!  Very inspiring.  If they could
>> build a
>> machine to do Fourier analysis in 1901, then we should be able to build
>> an
>> analog additive synthesizer.