ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the use of synthesis and sampling to make music and other sounds. The phrase ‘synthesizer sound source’ or the word ‘part’ will be used whenever a sound can be produced by a separate synthesizer or a section of a multi-timbral synthesizer. By choosing simple sounds, it is possible to use the same abstraction as additive synthesis to produce composite sounds that are made up from much simpler sounds. Hybrid sounds are produced using contrasting or complementary synthesis techniques. The process of splitting a sound into component sounds, then producing those sounds using separate sound sources and finally combining them together to produce the final sound is related to the analysis–synthesis methods of digital synthesis.
