yeah thats exactly what i did on a record i released a few years ago 'Beyondness'AK wrote:Steevio, I think you could do this with a sampler using it as a kind of additive synth. By loading in 'X' amount of individual looped sines ( or whatever ) and ensuring the sampler has enough multiple outs, these waveforms could be tuned to specific frequencies and levels to make up more complex waveforms and each 'partial' could be effected at its own respective individual out.steevio wrote:the best way to have full control of what happens to what frequency is to build your tune from individual frequencies in the first place.
this will give you absolute micro control over everything, rather than treating bands seperately which is quite crude really.
so in other words have a mixer channel for everything right down to individual oscillators. with minimal music this isnt as difficult as it sounds, i do it routinely, and its amazing how much control you can have over the sounds.
its similar to additive synthesis, but you can do it with subtractive synthesizers.
of course this doesnt apply to you if youre using sampling.
Anyway, I'm more interested in how you do this with subtractive synthesis, are you using sines to create more complex waveforms and what about tuning? Is this by ear or do you reference to a chart as such?
Quite interested in this topic now.
using an A6 Andromeda which can have 32 individually tuned sinewave oscillators at once, and i put each oscillator tuned to a different harmonic on a seperate channel on my mixing desk, then played the tune by fading in and out different bunches of faders with my fingers playing the mixer like a keyboard, each oscillator can have its own EQ, comp, effects etc etc.
and you can just sequence a groove to drive it all.
create your own timbres
