Re: Additive sound synthesis

[Peter Meijer <meijer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> does anyone of you know commercial software or shareware for the
> Macintosh Power PC or for UNIX systems that has been designed for
> additive sound synthesis (i.e. building up spectra from single
> partials)?
> ...
> No special programming skills should be required.

A very user-friendly Java implementation of interactive
additive sound synthesis is

   http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Peter_Meijer/javoice.htm

You just "draw" the spectrum you want synthesized on-the-fly.

However, the applet does not cover all the features you ask
for, and for professional work some other package such as
Csound should be used. Note about the Mac: Netscape 4.5 on
the Mac has a (platform-dependent) bug that prevents the
above (platform-independent) Java applet from giving sound.

Best wishes,

Peter Meijer


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