What is Harmonic Content Morphing (HCM) Synthesis?
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Loading ...Harmonic Content Morphing or HCM is a new synthesis method is based on a large and expandable repertoire of standard waves like pulse, unique synthetic waveforms as well as resynthesis waves like trumpets, organs, pianos and voice samples. These waves can be modified in real-time by FM modulation, altering its harmonic structure, syncing, waveshaping, transposing the wave by one or two octaves and adding it to the original wave, altering its harmonic structure, syncing, compressing or expanding the frequency domain of the spectrum, making the wave fat using only one (!) oscillator by transforming each wave into a hyper-wave, selecting some cycles of a sample and moving through them over time (comparable to wavetable synthesis) … Any modification of a wave can be modulated producing lively shimmery sounds (recall: with only one oscillator!). In total there are more than 30,000 different spectra available for combination and modulation.
Example: You can take a Hammond organ, FM modulate the organ with a sawtooth, create a hypersaw and amplitude modulate this signal with a BPM synced vocoder drumline.
This type of synthesis was developed by Tone2 Software and is used in Tone2 Gladiator and Tone2 Firebird
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September 24th, 2008 at 8:41 am
[...] to Tone2 Software. Let’s see why they claim this … Gladiator uses their inovative HCM synthesis method based on a large and expandable repertoire of standard waves like pulse, unique synthetic waveforms [...]