A useful freeware for file analysis is a program called Lemur. It will
give you a waterfall sonogram of your sound file.
I use it a lot with Csound and Kyma. You can also use Lemur in the
reverse way of feeding it pictures and translate them into sounds.
here's a link
http://shoko.calarts.edu/~tre/CompMusMac/I do a lot of "hand made" additive in Kyma. You can get very interesting
results if you use a slightly richer sound than a digital sine wave. For
instance, filtered banks of noise.
It would be very interesting to use ex MAX/MSP via a MIDI to CV
controlling a set of MOTM osc. You could easily build a front panel for
your MOTM modules with all the fourier functions in MAX/MSP.
This hybrid concept is a very interesting discussion. Kyma has opened
the door by making their interface code available, thus resulting in a
MAX/MSP opcode that communicates directly to Kyma via the firewire port.
This gives you a lot of features MIDI can't provide. Speed, bandwidth,
control info with audio rate, etc. How about a firewire port on the new
MOTM Midi to CV module? What do you say Paul?
Take care!
Tobias