Sound Synthesis and Sampling, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER 4

Making Sounds with Hybrid Electronics

CONTENTS

Hybrid Synthesis

  4.1 Wavecycle

  4.2 Wavetable

  4.3 DCOs

  4.4 DCFs

  4.5 S&S

  4.6 Topology

  4.7 Implementations over time

Environment

  4.8 Hybrid mixers (automation)

  4.9 Sequencing

4.10 Recording

4.11 Performing

4.12 Example instruments

4.13 Questions

4.14 Timeline

Hybrid synthesis is the name usually associated with methods of synthesis that are not completely analogue or digital. These borderline methods were most important during the changeover from analogue to digital sound generation in the early 1980s, but the underlying techniques have also become part of the all-digital synthesis methods. With the continuing increase of interest in ‘analogue’ synthesis that began in the ...