MOTM

Great thoughts on this one -- I agree with what's been said about static 
waves and a lot of what others have said in general.

In a message dated 12/10/99 9:23:04 PM, jlarryh@... writes:

>Korg made a "sampling synthesizer" just prior to coming out with the M1
>called a DSS-1.  This keyboard had two unique features that allowed users
>to create their own waves to experiment with the sonic experience.  The
>first feature was one that allowed to create a waveform, using the
>fundamental, and all the harmonics (thru some very high number you would
>never use).  This particular features was quite useful for those that
>wanted to do additive waves to emulate a Hammond sound where the harmonics
>were individually added. Another option actually allowed you to "draw"
>a
>waveform.  Basically, any digital wave could be used as the VCO output
>to
>the remainder of this analog synth.  However, these tools that allowed
>either adding harmonics by # and level or doing a "drawn" waveform made
>easier work that trying to edit 958,485 different settings.


OK, I have an old AlphaSyntauri (Mountain Music card and a keyboard that 
hooks up to an old Apple II -- don't laugh, it was free) which allows one to 
draw a waveform with a light pen (close to useless for reasons Paul and 
others have mentioned), and a way to build waves by adding harmonics. I used 
to do this on the Synclavier and remember finding it a very rewarding if 
somewhat time consuming way of working -- of course, I've hardly used this 
machine (Syntauri) so there could be a learning curve which I still may be on 
the wrong side of.

I can imagine a VCO which would allow one to select a waveform for each of 
the first 16 harmonics and its amplitude -- I think this could be an 
interesting module. But possibly Crow or others have tried something like 
this already(???).

Some sort of VC timbre modulation would of course be very interesting too!
JB