The Advanced Additive Synthesizer generates dynamic and natural sounds use them to produce music with MIDI files.
The basis idea of the Additive Synthesis is, to generate a sound by adding harmonic overtones (integer multiples of a root wave). In principle, one can thus generate every harmonic sound of any timbre.
But nature is a little more tricky. On one hand no sound has a constant overtone spectrum. In the most cases the higher overtones fades out faster, than the basic wave.
On the other hand two or more waves with slightly detuned frequencies can superpose and produce nice huming interferencies.
So the Advanced Additive Synthesis uses several (up to 4) slighly detuned oscillators with fading overtone spectra to produce interesting and natural sounds.
You can set an overtone spectrum manualy with the volume sliders, or you can construct it by selection rules or you can extract it from an natural wave by FFT analysis with one click. ... more
PS.: Adding the overtones is not the only way to produce a harmonic sounds. You can also multiply them (ring modulation) or use them for FM modulation or for many other algorythms. Just try the methods and see.
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