<html><body style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Horses for courses. Plenty of synths (both new and old) offer waveform mixing, but in a multi-oscillator synth I suspect it's not so important since you can combine different waveforms from different oscillators in order to get the same effect.<br><br>Yes, waveform mixing is not as sonically startling as modulation effects. But like I said somewhere (here?) recently, sometimes subtly is important :)<br><br>Regarding waveform normalisation - yes, I think plenty of (generally modern) synths must use it, because a triangle or sine with the same waveform height (i.e. peak-to-peak voltage difference) is very different in perceived volume to a square wave or sawtooth. So a vendor might well adjust the volume of different waveforms to match human ear expectations to avoid sonic accidents. On synths where this isn't the case simply changing from one type of waveform to another results a significant and sudden change in volume.<br><br>I have often been known to patch multiple waveforms outputs from one oscillator into different filter/amplitude/other modulation paths on my modular, mainly when making drone music.<br><br>Cheers,<br>A.<br><blockquote><br>----- Original Message -----<br><div id="origionalMessageFromField" style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "neil harper" <metadata@gmx.com></div><br><div id="origionalMessageToField" style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"Mattias Rickardsson" <mr@analogue.org>, "Tom Wiltshire" <tom@electricdruid.net><br><div id="origionalMessageSentField" style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div>"synthdiy diy" <synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.nl><br><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Fri, 6 May 2016 00:23:05 -0400<br><div id="origionalMessageSubjectField" style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [sdiy] Waveform mixing - normalization?<br><br><br>
I've never seen any normalization either.<br>
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> Can't make up my mind about free oscillator levels & mixing, it seems <br>
> like the advantage is often lost. In a way I'd prefer normalization <br>
> and a filter overdrive control at a later stage.<br>
><br>
> To be honest I've never really missed waveform mixing in a <br>
> one-waveform-selection-synth either. It feels like a relic from the <br>
> dawn of synthesis, an additive timbre shaping method that is rarely <br>
> very useful or interesting compared to waveform modulation, audio-rate <br>
> modulation and subtractive shaping. Do you guys like and use waveform <br>
> mixing?<br>
><br>
> /mr<br>
><br><br>
I got the impression that waveform mixing would allow a lot more sound <br>
possibilities, but maybe that's an outdated idea like you suggest?<br><br><br>
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