Thanks for the list so far everyone, any other additive synthesizers you know of will be appreciated.

I can't go on to musicians friend and just buy an additive synthesizer new, and it is doubtful that I will be able to unless some musical trends happen to change. See the beginning of this appendix, including the discussion about all sounds being a sum of various sine tones and harmonics, for background information to provide insight into additive synthesis.

But they probably won't make one.įor synths there is success in sales, success in music, but I wish that all forms of synthesis were easily avalible to the average user. Additive Synthesis Additive synthesis could be considered the reverse approach to subtractive synthesis. I actually think it would be quite easy now technology-wise for a company to make an additive synthesis keyboard - if they could make one in the late 80's then they can surely make one in the late 2000's. But none of those new synths to my knowledge have added any additive synthesis. As you said, is has been used on more tracks, also, most digital 'Analog Modeling' synths add FM synthesis to varying degrees, some add a little bit, some add a lot (they use subtractive sythesis as their base though). I think also FM synthesis is much more successful than additive synthesis.

Additive vs subtractive synth