I agree. My professional expertise is in speech research and speech synthesis and studies
have shown the human ear cannot distinguish static phase relationships in a monophonic
signal.

BTW, looking at many of the posts for this thread (not yours), I notice arguments are often
extreme black and white from the usual confrontational posters. If you can't do Additive
synthesis 100% on analog then it's useless. If you can't make a pure 0% THD sine, then
they are useless. Useful sines can only be generated by sine cores, etc...

I find a lot of utility with my 1% THD triangle converted sines in Additive and FM
applications :-)

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Chris Muir <cbm@...> wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2008, at 10:03 AM, achtung_999 wrote:
>
> > I think it is rather extremely naïve that you think you can model
> > natural
> > sounds with additive synthesis.History has proven that many people
> > thought
> > it was possible but failed in the end.
>
>
> There have a number of pretty good additive synthesis and resynthesis
> projects. Several systems, albeit digital, allowed phases to roll
> freely. There have price barriers in commercializing these, though.
>
> There are certainly challenges in implementing an additive system with
> analog electronics, but keeping phase relationships might not be as
> important as you think, though.
>
> - C
>
> Chris Muir
> cbm@...
> http://www.xfade.com
>