Virtual analog
What is virtual analog synthesis?
Virtual analog synthesis recreates the sound and behaviour of analog synthesizers in software, from oscillators and filters to envelopes and drift.
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Synthesis guides.
How each kind of synthesis behind Xionia Audio’s instruments makes its sound, with the ideas and terms you’ll meet along the way.
Wavetable
What is wavetable synthesis?
Wavetable synthesis plays through a series of stored waveforms, morphing between them to create sounds whose harmonic content keeps changing.
Read the guideFM and additive
What are FM and additive synthesis?
FM synthesis creates harmonics by letting one oscillator modulate another’s frequency, and additive synthesis builds a sound from individual harmonics.
Read the guideSampling and granular
What are sampling and granular synthesis?
Sampling turns recordings into playable instruments, and granular synthesis breaks them into tiny grains to build new textures, rhythms and sounds.
Read the guidePhysical modelling
What is physical modelling synthesis?
Physical modelling synthesis simulates how objects vibrate, from strings and struck bodies to voices, so its sounds respond to playing as real ones do.
Read the guidePercussion
What is drum synthesis?
Drum synthesis builds kicks, snares, hats and percussion from oscillators, noise and envelopes, so every hit can be shaped down to its transient.
Read the guideMathematical
What is mathematical synthesis?
Mathematical synthesis generates sound from structures such as ratios, fractals and chaotic systems, turning order, chaos and emergence into music.
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