Other Types of Synthesis
Other than subtractive synthesis, what other methods of synthesis might need to be known for the exam...
- Created by: Eleanor Prescott
- Created on: 29-05-13 21:32
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- Other Common Types of Synthesis
- Additive Synthesis
- Multiple oscillators create a sine wave each - with user-defined amplitude and frequency.
- This emulates the natural process of producing sound with multiple harmonics.
- First commercial model: New England Electric Music Company 'Telharmonium' in 1906
- Notable model: Hammond Organ, 1935. More successful than the Telharmonium.
- Frequency Modulation
- Yamaha DX7 (1983)
- First commercially successful and affordable digital synthesis type.
- 6 sine oscillators, each with user-defined frequency, amplitude and envelope shaping.
- Differs from additive in that it doesn't combine waveforms
- Instead one oscillator modulates the next and so on until the final one in the chain produces a complex waveform.
- Additive Synthesis
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