Sound Synthesis Approaches

• Waveform generators: sinusoidal, triangular, impulse trains

• Additive: lots of sinusoids

• Modulation: audio-rate modulation of oscillator parameters, AM, FM
  • John Chowning - Stria (1977)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (1994)

• Physical modeling: physics-based models of sound generating systems
  • GeoShred
  • Swam Audio Modeling