Audio Processes

16 Additive Synthesis

16.1	Basic Concepts
16.1.1	Additive Synthesis Characteristics
16.1.2	Frequency Separation
16.2	Synthesis with Control over Individual Partials
16.2.1	Synthesizer Form
16.2.2	Configuration from Theory
16.2.3	Configuration from Sound Analysis
16.2.4	Abstract Configuration
16.3	Synthesis with Mapped Control over Multiple Partials
16.4	Developing Processes and Learning More

16.1 Basic Concepts

16.1.1 Additive Synthesis Characteristics

Additive synthesis is based on the idea of summing individual amplitude-weighted sinusoidal partials at different frequencies to create sounds. Chapters 3 and 4 described how time and frequency domain analysis can be used to discover the internal construction of sounds in terms of sinusoidal partials. Additive ...