| Names | Advanced Wave Modulation (AWM), Realtime Convolution and Modulation (RCM) |
|---|---|
| Class | Wavetable, FM |
| Products | Yamaha: SY99 |
| Details | Yamaha’s combination of FM and wavetable synthesis, with a limited possibility of FM modulation of wavetables and vice versa. |
| Strong and weak points |
| Names | Linear Arithmetic (LA) |
|---|---|
| Class | Additive, wavetable |
| Products | Roland: D‐50, MT‐32 |
| Details | A sampled attack with a single cycle looped wave plus filtering algorithm with low resource requirements. Has a characteristic sound, but is surprisingly versatile. Roland’s implementation also allows multiplicative combination of the steady‐state and attack portions, leading to nice distorted attacks. I guess the nice, distinctive electric piano sound of the L/A series synths might employ this method. |
| Strong and weak points |
| Names | Z‐plane |
|---|---|
| Class | Subtractive, wavetable |
| Products | E‐mu: Morpheus |
| Details | A high order realtime modulatable subtractive synthesis algorithm. Filter configurations and modulation routings are largely fixed to prevent distortion. |
| Strong and weak points |
| Names | TransWave |
|---|---|
| Class | Wavetable |
| Products | Ensoniq: TS12 |
| Details | Ensoniq’s combination of wavestacking and wave sequencing. |
| Strong and weak points |
| Names | Intermodulation |
|---|---|
| Class | |
| Products | Roland: JD‐990 |
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| Strong and weak points |