ABSTRACT
Hybrid synthesis is the name usually associated with methods of synthesis that are not completely analogue or digital. Synthesizers and samplers will continue to follow development in audio technology. Future developments are likely to include more digital processing and less analogue electronics. Hybrid synthesizers that use wavecycle-based sound generation can use this single-cycle mode, but they can also produce additional waveshapes, and use more complex schemes where more than one cycle of the waveform is used before the shape is repeated. Single-cycle oscillators produce fixed waveforms, somewhat like an analogue synthesizer, although the selection of waveshapes is often much larger. The important thing about multi-cycle oscillators is that although they can have many cycles of waveforms that they output in sequence, the same set of cycles repeats continuously. The modifiers are usually just some sort of filtering and enveloping control.
