10 February 2010
Morphine is an Additive Synthesizer with quite a few ‘twists’. Additive synthesis creates sound entirely from sine wave harmonics and at first this may seem like a major limitation.However, Fourier Theory teaches us that any waveform can be decomposed into an infinite series of sinewaves, a harmonic series.
That means Morphine can still create all your Subtractive Synthesis favorites: Square, Saw and Sine waves. It gets better, Morphine can also reproduce the complexity found in real sounds by smoothly interpolating a series of these harmonic ’snapshots’, in realtime, to generate what is best described as ’synthetic samples’. In this way, programming Morphine will feel familiar to anyone who has used a Sampler, with the ability to assign sounds across the keyboard and to create crossfades, stacks or blends of any sound/s as desired, welcome to Morphine!
Tagged Additive, additive synthesis, harmonic series, infinite series, Morphine, series, sine waves, Sound, subtractive synthesis, synthesis
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