Yeah it's tough to talk/type about this stuff.
I personally feel you need SOME freedom in setting the pitches. For me, you
can already get pretty decent approximations of harmonic instruments using a
bunch of sawtooth VCOs sync'd together. But where analog falls short is in
the 'enharmonic' sounds, which the vast majority of natural sounds are. You
end up either filtering white noise-very crude---or using the sidebands that
a ring modulator gives you, which has a very particular, identifiable sound.
There HAS to be another way! Additive goes directly for that, but it's a
bear to control.
This subject has been bothering me for quite some time.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brousseau, Paul E (Paul) [mailto:
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Sent:Tuesday, 05 December, 2000 12:43 PM
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Subject:RE: [motm] Long rave: Additive Synth VCO (was: MOTM 910 Nice
Job Paul !!)
So they do it the (ouch) hard way. No wonder they were never entirely
successful.
I suppose the problem with bunching oscillators is that you're assuming that
you want the oscillators bunched at those fixed intervals. I could see
having them run at ill-tempered (heh) intervals for some nicely clangy
sounds (bells, anyone?).
Perhaps you could have oscillators bunched together, and them manipulate how
the bunches are offset from each other. The oscillators ∗within∗ each bunch
would be tempered to particular intervals. Or is this what you had in mind
to begin with? (Sorry for the poor description, I'm writing
free-thought...)