MOTM

A useful freeware for file analysis is a program called Lemur. It will 
give you a waterfall sonogram of your sound file.
I use it a lot with Csound and Kyma. You can also use Lemur in the 
reverse way of feeding it pictures and translate them into sounds.
here's a link
http://shoko.calarts.edu/~tre/CompMusMac/

I do a lot of "hand made" additive in Kyma. You can get very interesting 
results if you use a slightly richer sound than a digital sine wave. For 
instance, filtered banks of noise.

It would be very interesting to use ex MAX/MSP via a MIDI to CV 
controlling a set of MOTM osc. You could easily build a front panel for 
your MOTM modules with all the fourier functions in MAX/MSP.

This hybrid concept is a very interesting discussion. Kyma has opened 
the door by making their interface code available, thus resulting in a 
MAX/MSP opcode that communicates directly to Kyma via the firewire port. 
This gives you a lot of features MIDI can't provide. Speed, bandwidth, 
control info with audio rate, etc. How about a firewire port on the new 
MOTM Midi to CV module? What do you say Paul?

Take care!
Tobias