I mean, give me an equalizer and super fast jazz hands and I can emulate any purely subtractive effect upon a signal using just the equalizer and modulating cuts and boosts.
My favorite practical tool for this kind of thing is Toky Dawn Record’s Nova Vst. There is a great free version but the paid version is still a massive bargain for how good the signal processing is. The basic idea of Nova is a visual equalizer that you can turn static cuts and boosts into dynamically responding cuts and boosts… i.e. the equalizer becomes a compressor.
In general, the philosophy of seeing the creation of sound as taking a process of taking a rich signal and removing from it in one way or another is called “Subtractive Synthesis” and there is a very good reason it is one of the most prolific and celebrated kinds of digital synthesis techniques. It is a very powerful way to look at the process of synthesizing sound.
Right but in an aural sense in terms of how a human would perceive it changing time, not necessarily in a technical objective computer sense
I mean, give me an equalizer and super fast jazz hands and I can emulate any purely subtractive effect upon a signal using just the equalizer and modulating cuts and boosts.
My favorite practical tool for this kind of thing is Toky Dawn Record’s Nova Vst. There is a great free version but the paid version is still a massive bargain for how good the signal processing is. The basic idea of Nova is a visual equalizer that you can turn static cuts and boosts into dynamically responding cuts and boosts… i.e. the equalizer becomes a compressor.
https://www.tokyodawn.net/tdr-nova/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1CHFv4mWQYM
In general, the philosophy of seeing the creation of sound as taking a process of taking a rich signal and removing from it in one way or another is called “Subtractive Synthesis” and there is a very good reason it is one of the most prolific and celebrated kinds of digital synthesis techniques. It is a very powerful way to look at the process of synthesizing sound.