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Because of its theoretical advantage for making timbral manipulations, sine wave additive synthesis is an attractive alternative to sampling synthesis, which is currently the most popular method for real-time synthesizers. Nevertheless, until recently performers have seldom used additive synthesis because of the practical difficulty of accomplishing these timbral manipulations, which inherently require modification of large numbers of time-varying amplitude and frequency control functions.
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HAKEN, L., FITZ, K., CHRISTENSEN, P. (2007). Beyond Traditional Sampling Synthesis: Real-Time Timbre Morphing Using Additive Synthesis. In: Beauchamp, J.W. (eds) Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32576-7_3
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