oblioblioblio wrote:you can use different shaped oscillators instead of square, and you can add instead of subtract them. You can crossfade between adding and subtracting, and you can crossfade between the diffrent waveforms.... so much potential.
For a simple example, one of my favourite sounds at the moment is saw, with another saw with a different phase... then added together instead of subtracted.
You can also use another effect on one of the waves before you add them together (or subtract one from another).
To bring up modular as an example (although it is of course completely possible to investigate this effect with digital oscillators).... the Malekko Wiard Oscillator does the exact thing that I'm talking about. And the Livewire Audio Frequency generator goes even further with completely ridiculous possibilities for changing phase.
I am just using those oscillators as examples... the core idea of changing phase at the heart of a synth patch is not exclusive to those machines.
and again, sorry but i dont see here anything i cant do with soft synth.
i can take one osc, choose whatever shape i want and in the second osc choose whatever shape i want. i can change the phase and modulate it separately in each osc.
i CAN take a saw and mix it with another saw with different phase.
i can even take one subtractive osc and one additive and one granular and mix all three of them.
i understand the idea your saying. i just dont understand why you say software dont have this options when some already do offer just that.
Alchemy by Camel Audio is just one example.