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This is the case with all frontier pushing synthesis techniques. It's
not going to come handed to you as a preset! But in the process of
tweaking and building new concepts you make new discoveries, and get a
deeper knowledge of how things work and what sounds good. Additive
synthesis is a very valid technique to investigate
A very similar ongoing debate is Csound. Why bother with Csound when you
can buy a synthesizer that instantly can do what will take you weeks to
figure out in Csound? Well, simply put because that's how we discover
new things. That's where the frontier is, just as with MOTM in the
analog world. I used a lot of Csound in the movie "Traffic". And in
"Narc" I even used a hand made additive sound!

There's an additive technique in particular, that I've used a lot in
both Csound and Kyma (with great results) and hope to recreate with MOTM
modules, additive harmonic filtering (Paul Lansky). You feed a sound to
a bank of filters with high resonance tuned and enveloped to your specs.
This technique captures more noise and enharmonic material which is very
important ingredients of a natural sound.
I found out when experimenting, that the most interesting stuff happens
with the first few filter partials. Six filters gives wonderful
results.. Now, instead of crappy digital filter you use MOTM filters!
The only problem is that currently there is no bandpass filter in the
MOTM series.

Paul, more power to you for pushing new terrain!

Tobias