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Hey,
More things to make you go 'what the hell is he talking about?!?!?'
In a previous post we talked about different types of instruments: acoustic, analogue and digital.
Most of us have a pretty good grasp of what an acoustic sound source is: anything that vibrates and causes the molecules in the air to excite and move through the air, eventually hitting our eardrums which our brains decode as 'sound'.
Audio synthesis is a way to artificially create sounds using some sort of device, usually electronic. At the beginning people were trying to make electronic instruments which could synthesize acoustic instruments, like strings and brass, but unfortunately most of their attempts failed as the nature of acoustic instruments was too complex to synthesize.
As time went on, though, people started to enjoy the sounds that these instruments were capable of producing that no acoustic instrument could do, like weird bleeps and blurps, or anything from the Dr. Who show on tv. We take it for granted now hearing these sounds because many of them have been around longer than we've been alive, but at the time it was a big big deal to the guys who were into this stuff!
There are all different types of synthesis: additive, subtractive, AM, FM, PCM, virtual analogue, formant, granular, physical modelling...
Most of these types of synthesis can be done on either an analogue or digital synth; a few of them can only be done on a digital synth.
Anyone care to guess how each of the mentioned typed of synthesis works?
Take care,
Nick
More things to make you go 'what the hell is he talking about?!?!?'
In a previous post we talked about different types of instruments: acoustic, analogue and digital.
Most of us have a pretty good grasp of what an acoustic sound source is: anything that vibrates and causes the molecules in the air to excite and move through the air, eventually hitting our eardrums which our brains decode as 'sound'.
Audio synthesis is a way to artificially create sounds using some sort of device, usually electronic. At the beginning people were trying to make electronic instruments which could synthesize acoustic instruments, like strings and brass, but unfortunately most of their attempts failed as the nature of acoustic instruments was too complex to synthesize.
As time went on, though, people started to enjoy the sounds that these instruments were capable of producing that no acoustic instrument could do, like weird bleeps and blurps, or anything from the Dr. Who show on tv. We take it for granted now hearing these sounds because many of them have been around longer than we've been alive, but at the time it was a big big deal to the guys who were into this stuff!
There are all different types of synthesis: additive, subtractive, AM, FM, PCM, virtual analogue, formant, granular, physical modelling...
Most of these types of synthesis can be done on either an analogue or digital synth; a few of them can only be done on a digital synth.
Anyone care to guess how each of the mentioned typed of synthesis works?
Take care,
Nick