K5synth

Creating natural sounds using additive synthesis is quite difficult, 
unless you really know about acoustics and have the proper tools. 
spectrum analyzer, etc. Even with a spectrum analyzer, it's tough to 
understand how each harmonic's amplitude evolves in time. Let 
engineers in Kawai do that and make these patches public!

I mainly create artificial sounds on the K5, playing with the DFT 
envelope, LFO, etc. I believe the K5 is fairly good in controlling 
groups of harmonics individually (up to 4 groups), and let them 
evolve using the envelopes. The K5 would be great if it had mode 
polyphony, 16 is not enough. A string patch alone is not fat enough, 
so when you assign 3 strings to a multi and detone them, you eat up 
all your polyphony. Then again, you can use Cubase to record 
individual patches and layer them one on top of the other. 



--- In k5synth@yahoogroups.com, "jbrave" <onephatcat@e...> wrote:
> Some people are interested in additive synthesis as a way to 
produce sounds
> in imitation of nature and acoustic instruments. Some are 
interested in
> creating new sounds that don't occur in nature. I'm interested in 
creating
> sounds that slowly evolve over time.
> 
> What types of sounds do you create, and what is your philosophy 
about sound
> creation?
> 
> Joel