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Digiton
Joined: Jul 27, 2006 Posts: 146 Location: Brooklyn
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:40 am Post subject:
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Has anyone found additive synthesis fulfilling? I am using Cube 2 and can't quite decided if the work hours to decent patch ratio works out. It usually sounds thin and tinny. So, i'd like to hear other peoples expierence with additive synthesis (spectral morphing, resynthesis, etc.). Cheerio! |
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jksuperstar
Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 2503 Location: Denver
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:56 am Post subject:
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I think it can be rewarding when used with wavelet or constant q analysis front end, and additive synthesis for resynth. Wavelets and constant q transforms can follow a musical scale, rather than the linear scale that FFT's are limited to.
I'm starting to play with grains as the resynthesis agent though, which seems to have lots of options on what can be done with the sound. I consider grains as additive synthesis, instead of cosines your using a small burst of sound.
Playing with lots of tools...there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of well developed ones in this area.
Haven't played much with straight forward synthesis, only resynthesis. |
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mosc
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Joined: Jan 31, 2003 Posts: 18197 Location: Durham, NC
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject:
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I've played around with it quite a bit, and I haven't had as much fun with is as conventional modular synthesis on the G2. For additive synthesis to sound good you have to control all of the envelopes. I like synthesis I can manipulate in real time with my hands. Still, it is a very powerful technique that will only see increasing use as computers become faster. _________________ --Howard
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Digiton
Joined: Jul 27, 2006 Posts: 146 Location: Brooklyn
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:28 am Post subject:
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interesting. |
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jksuperstar
Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 2503 Location: Denver
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:59 am Post subject:
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I agree with Howard, that's what lead me to play with wavelet's, spectral analysis, and other methods of "automating" the control of each generative element (or taking a smaller number of parameters and expanding them out to literally thousands). |
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zerocrossing
Joined: Jun 07, 2007 Posts: 10 Location: USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject:
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I tried Cube... and it led me to Cameleon5000. I just think it's interface is better. My best friend swears by Cube though.
At first I passed by additive synths as sounding too... thin. Then I realized that I wasn't really giving it a fair shake. It does have it's own sound and when coupled with other synthesis types it really does round out the ol' arsenal. I'm excited to check out new resynthesis tools like Poseidon and Krishna Synth. I was a beta tester on Krishna and the possibilities are endless on that instrument |
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seraph
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Joined: Jun 21, 2003 Posts: 12398 Location: Firenze, Italy
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:51 pm Post subject:
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zerocrossing wrote: | the possibilities are endless |
so many possibilities, so little time... _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
Quote: | Don't die with your music still in you - Wayne Dyer |
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