ABSTRACT
The synthesis techniques described in previous chapters are mainly concerned with creating particular time domain and frequency domain features, or recreating the output of a particular sound source. For example, additive, subtractive, AM, and FM techniques are used to create particular harmonics, inharmonics, spectral envelope characteristics, and amplitude envelopes. Such techniques can produce a very wide range of different sounds, but the synthesis parameters might not be closely related to the physics of the instrument being modelled, making naturalistic changes harder to achieve.
