Re: Additive sound synthesis

[Alexandre Enkerli <aenkerli@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

About Csound: Well, it does involve something similar to programing but
it's perfect for this kind of experiment (IMHO), is free and is available
for any platform.
For your needs, only very minimal skills would be required, AFAIK.
Front page: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Man/c_front.html
FTP server: ftp://ftp.maths.bath.ac.uk/pub/dream
Mirror: http://www.musique.umontreal.ca/electro/mirror/
And various commented "instruments":
http://mars.let.uva.nl/gather/accci/index.html
Mirror: http://www.musique.umontreal.ca/electro/accci/

Otherwise, there was at least one Mac program that was designed for
psycho-acoustic experiment and was called "synthesiser" (with an 's', if I
remember correctly). I can't seem to find it right now, though.

But you may try one of these:
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/mac/Computer_Synths_Sound_Generators/Synths/
or these:
http://www.harmony-central.com/Software/Mac/software_synthesizers.html
or these (for Linux):
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/linux/Computer_Synths_Sound_Generators/Synths/
Or even this (for Linux):
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/siggen/
This page contains other references to software synthesizers:
http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/~ich/research/softsynth.html

And Syd (formerly "SoftSynth") is a MusicV-like (or Turbosynth-like)
instrument editor and software synthesizer for Mac and Windows (and "does"
additive synth, AFAIK):
http://www.jbum.com/syd/

There are other implementations of MusicV and Turbosynth-like software
synthesizers.

In fact, a very old (1988) demo version of Turbosynth is still around:
http://rhythm.harmony-central.com/~ftp/software/mac/synth/turbosynth.cpt.hqx

Hope any of this help.