ABSTRACT
Additive synthesis is based on the idea of summing individual amplitude-weighted sinusoidal partials at different frequencies to create sounds. Chapters 3 and 4 described how time and frequency domain analysis can be used to discover the internal construction of sounds in terms of sinusoidal partials. Additive synthesis allows the features seen in analysis to be directly synthesized. This has a number of advantages:
• Because the sinusoidal partial is a very simple element, additive synthesis allows great precision of sound construction. For example, the amplitude of a particular harmonic can be changed without affecting any others.
