Sound Synthesis and Sampling, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER 3

Making Sounds with Analogue Electronics

CONTENTS

  3.1  Before the synthesizer

Analogue Synthesis

  3.2  Analogue and digital

  3.3  Subtractive synthesis

  3.4  Additive synthesis

  3.5  Other methods of analogue synthesis

  3.6  Topology

  3.7  Early versus modern implementations

Environment

  3.8  Sampling in an analogue environment

  3.9  Sequencing

3.10  Recording

3.11  Performing

3.12  Example instruments

3.13  Questions

3.14  Timeline

3.1 Before the synthesizer

The use of electronics for audio started with the invention of the telephone in the last part of the nineteenth century. Before this, microphones were very insensitive and produced lots of distortion, and loudspeakers were very quiet! Since then electronics has developed ...