Reaktor Tutorial - Additive Synthesis

Native Instruments have just launched their latest Reaktor Synth
called Razor and it is causing quite a stir in the sound design and
production communities. So what makes this synth so exciting?
Well it is down to a process called additive synthesis.

Put in the plainest terms possible, additive synthesis is the sum-
mation of simple tones to create more complex ones.

The sound is constructed from partials (or frequency components)
firing in parallel, changing amplitude and even frequency over time.
Additive synthesis is a very powerful sound design tool because the
many micro-variations in the frequency and amplitude of individual
partials mirrors those that makes natural sounds so rich and lively,
and the resulting sound remains clear and precise at all times, even
when heavily modulated.

This video demonstrates how to go about building an additive synth
in Reaktor plus an overview of some of the other techniques that you
will learn on the Point Blank Online Sound Design course. Even this
fairly simple example consisting of just 8 partials, you can begin to
hear how an additive synth can create an impressively rich and mall-
eable sound. So when you think that Razor's additive engine consists
of up to 320 partials you can start to see why everyone is so eager
to get their hands on it!

-PointBlankOnline.net