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- How do you build additive synthesis?
- What kind of sounds can additive synthesis create?
- What is additive synthesis used for?
- Can complex sounds be created using additive synthesis?
How do you build additive synthesis?
In additive synthesis, you start out with nothing and build a sound by combining multiple sine waves of differing levels and frequencies. As more sine waves are combined, they begin to generate additional harmonics. In most additive synthesizers, each set of sine waves is viewed and used much like an oscillator.
What kind of sounds can additive synthesis create?
Additive synthesis is a sound synthesis technique that creates timbre by adding sine waves together. The timbre of musical instruments can be considered in the light of Fourier theory to consist of multiple harmonic or inharmonic partials or overtones.
What is additive synthesis used for?
Additive synthesis is a technique which builds sounds from the bottom up, by incrementally adding simple waveforms together to achieve the desired resultss. Additive synthesis can be used to very accurately model almost any musical instrument, given enough computational resources.
Can complex sounds be created using additive synthesis?
Many years ago Joseph Fourier found out that any sound, no matter how complex, can be re-created by adding together (sometimes called superposition) of sine waves at different frequencies, amplitudes and phases. This technique is called Additive Synthesis (also called Harmonic Synthesis).
