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An ideal music-synthesis technique provides both high-level spectral control and efficient computation. Simple playback of recorded samples lacks spectral control, while additive sine-wave synthesis is inefficient. Wavetable and frequencymodulation synthesis, however, are two popular synthesis techniques that are very efficient and use only a few control parameters.
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HORNER, A. (2007). A Comparison of Wavetable and FM Data Reduction Methods for Resynthesis of Musical Sounds. In: Beauchamp, J.W. (eds) Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32576-7_6
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