CAST
Additive Synthesis
CAST is an acronym for CNMAT Additive Synthesis Tools.
Why we bet the farm on additive synthesis:
- Affords expressive musical control
- Perceptually relevant parameterizations
- Sample rate and hardware independent timbre description (difficult with FM
and waveguide models)
- Extra dimensions for synthesis resource optimization and allocation:
- sample rate (bandwidth)
- partial pruning (timbral precision)
- adjustable frame rate (temporal precision)
- partial group assignment accross processors