Vertigo vs Harmor vs Alchemy

[bmanic]

I just really liked the K5000 and figure I should look more into anything additive.

Well you can program partial by partial, breakpoint by breakpoint and get some pretty K5000'y results in Alchemy, but to be honest you'll need the patience of a saint and a lot of time to get results.

.. that was the problem with the K5000 as well. It offered incredibly detailed editing but it was hard to do on that rather convoluted smallish screen (well it was rather generous considering when it was released!!). The additional remote knob control panel thing you could buy only gave you a few basic knobs to tweak so that was no help either. I always wished for an external "32 grouped partial sliders" controller for the K5000. That would have been awesome!

Cheers!
bManic

[HunterKiller]

I just really liked the K5000 and figure I should look more into anything additive.

Well you can program partial by partial, breakpoint by breakpoint and get some pretty K5000'y results in Alchemy, but to be honest you'll need the patience of a saint and a lot of time to get results. I made some pure additive patches for cameleon years ago but I don't think its something I would take on in Alchemy. There is the spreadsheet function where you can program the partials via a spreadsheet, but I've not tried it since it was fixed, I had got the basics of it but the way tunings are dealt with has changed since then. Being able to import K5000 presets would be awesome.

I don't think you could beat Harmor or Razor for control over pure additive synthesis (rather than resynthesis of existing sounds) at the moment.

I've always had an affinity for pure additive synthesis, rather than re-synthesis, because it's abstract, like pure analog compared to something like the D50, Wavestation, M1, and all the synths of the same vein that followed.

Something like this is a hell of a lot of fun:

Or Jarre's famous RMI: